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Surrealist Fiction

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Asimov's Science Fiction

From its earliest days in 1977 under the editorial direction of Isaac Asimov, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine has maintained the tradition of publishing the best stories, unsurpassed in modern science fiction, from award-winning authors and first-time writers alike. In recent years, Asimov's has placed more stories on the Final Hugo Ballot than all of its competitors combined, and more than twice as many as its closest competitor…
Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story, Novelette, Novella.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.08-$0.10/word.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 36.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 2.8% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Clarkesworld

Clarkesworld is a monthly science fiction and fantasy magazine first published in October 2006. Each issue contains interviews, thought-provoking articles, and between six and eight works of original fiction. Our fiction is also available in ebook editions/subscriptions, audio podcasts, print issues, and in our annual print/ebook anthologies. Clarkesworld has been recognized with a World Fantasy Award, three Hugo Awards, and a British Fantasy Award…
Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story, Novelette, Novella.
Payment: Professional. Details: USD $0.14/word.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 2.0 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 0.2% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Exquisite Death Wildcard

Providing an online resource for authors and musicians. Exquisite Death aims to bring a voice to the voiceless for dark fiction and music. Originally started in 2003 by Taylor Dahlen and Sarah Kelderman and brought back from the dead 20 years later, Exquisite Death aims to reclaim their role of macabre weavers of dark imagination for the masses.
Genres: Fantasy, Horror.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 17.9 days.

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Ghost Parachute

Ghost Parachute seeks to publish writing that is unapologetically bold. We wish to lose ourselves in fresh and vibrant imagery. We want to read what we’ve always known but were too afraid to say. We want to read a story unlike any other story we’ve read before. It’s easy to view the world in black and white, so Ghost Parachute paints a streak of gray. Great stories don’t ride the popular, easy narrative, and great characters are often impossible to love yet we love them anyway…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 3.3 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 4.2% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Horrific Scribes Mature

Horrific Scribes is an expanding online archive of dark short fiction (and some poetry) by various authors who share the Horrific Scribblings imprint’s dedication to the provocative, scary, and strange. Most of the stories will have elements of horror, ranging from bloodless slow burns to raucous extreme romps, but related genres–dark fantasy, dark sci-fi, surrealist and other experimental writing with dark tendencies–are likely to appear…
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: to Token to Semi-pro. Details: USD $25 per story.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 8.7 days.
Acceptances: Average. 7.9% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Meridian

Meridian is a literary journal produced at the University of Virginia in conjunction with the university’s M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing, whose students serve as the magazine’s editors. Founded in 1998, Meridian has featured the works of numerous Pulitzer Prize Winners, National Book Award Winners, and established writers including Charles Wright, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Seamus Heaney, Ann Beattie, John Casey, George Garrett, Heather McHugh, Richard Bausch, Bonnie Jo Campbell,…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment. Free copy(ies).
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 118.3 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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The Molotov Cocktail

The Molotov Cocktail is interested in volatile flash fiction, the kind of prose you cook up in a bathtub and handle with rubber gloves. While literary fiction is certainly welcomed, The Molotov Cocktail isn’t some erudite journal that will only accept stories with at least five layers of metaphor. We want your action, we want your rotten characters, we want viscera. While genre pieces are permissible, anything that is reliant on genre convention over story will not be looked kindly upon…
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Slower than average responder. 139.4 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 3.5% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Okay Donkey Magazine

Okay Donkey is a literary magazine that likes to read the odd, the off-kilter, and the just plain weird. We like work that’s funny, that’s sad, and that’s both funny and sad. We especially enjoy the experimental, the surreal, the magical realist, and the genre-bending.
Genres: Open to all/most genres, including: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $25 per flash.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 15.5 days.
Acceptances: Challenging. 0.4% of fiction submissions accepted.

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SORTES Magazine

SORTES is a spinning collection of stories, poems, songs, and illustrations to help while away the wintery June nights. It’s an oddball grabbag wunderkammer mixtape offering distraction and refreshment. We have neither theme nor scene. Each issue is its own creature…
Genres: General.
Lengths: Flash Fiction, Short Story.
Payment: No monetary payment.
Avg. Response: Average responder. 55.3 days.
Acceptances: Approachable. 11.1% of fiction submissions accepted.

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Trollbreath Magazine

Trollbreath Magazine is a journal of speculative fiction, poetry, and non-fiction. Our interests are as varied as the endless amount of genres, from dark fantasy to hope punk to surrealism, and everything in between. We have a particular fondness for slipstream and fabulism in all their delightful forms, but what motivates us most are great stories by wonderful authors eager to share their visions of the past, the future, the in between, and everything that lies outside the margins…
Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction.
Lengths: Short Story.
Payment: Semi-pro. Details: USD $0.04/word for originals; $0.01/word for reprints.
Avg. Response: Faster than average responder. 5.6 days.
Acceptances: Unknown. None reported yet in fiction.

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