Category: Short Fiction Publishers

“The Bee Wrangler” – New Military Flash Fiction

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Ines deals with the war by wrangling bees.

For those of you who are interested in reading or writing military fiction (the same genre which brought us Starship Troopers and Ender’s Game), check out Bullet Points Magazine! They are accepting submissions!

They are a military fiction magazine that captures the complexity, tragedy, and hope of warfare and violence in human and nonhuman society.

My story, “The Bee Wrangler,” just made it into their AI edition.

The 9th edition of Bullet Points Magazine explores AI in warfare from multiple angles: AI run amok (in some very unexpected ways), the loyalty of AI on the battlefield, or more reflective uses of AI after the fighting has stopped, and sometimes, the real fighting begins (as explained in the magazine’s introduction). There’s also a funny story about sentient bullets.

“The Bee Wrangler” depicts the tale of a former drone operator trying to overcome the trauma of war by using the military tech installed in her brain in a quite unexpected way—to save the bees!

Read Bullet Points Edition 9 Here on Amazon

Read “The Bee Wrangler” for FREE here!

An Image I Made For “The Bee Wrangler”

A Short Cautionary Tale About Fascism – Told Via Clowns!

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Stories about fascism aren’t relevant right now. No, not at all. I was just mentioning this randomly for no particular reason. (Sigh…)

Anyways… the other day I was reading Radon Journal (a journal that publishes stories relating to science fiction, anarchism, transhumanism, and dystopia), and I found this flash fiction that was just about as entertaining as it was dystopian:

The Ten Declarations of Bozo, Supreme Jongleur of Planet Clown

Check it out!

If you are also looking for a place to submit your short works of fiction to, I would highly recommend Radon Journal. They tend to publish engaging, well-written, off the wall content. And they have won several awards as well!

Check out Radon Journal here!

Top 24 Websites for Flash Fiction

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Book Fox put together a great list of top Flash Fiction websites organized by the amount of traffic each website receives a month.

These websites are open to receiving flash fiction, sudden fiction, micro fiction, short-short — i.e. stories under 1000 words. These are stories that can be read in 5 minutes or less.

Here are some of the top sites on the list by the numbers:

  1. 3 AM Magazine – 85,000 VISITORS MONTHLY
  2. Flash Fiction Online – 35,000 VISITORS MONTHLY
  3. Word Riot – 25,000 VISITORS MONTHLY (No longer accepting submissions)
  4. Every Day Fiction – 22,000 VISITORS MONTHLY

See the rest of the list here.

Help Support Sci-Fi Micro Fiction!

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Getting traditionally published is an uphill battle which is getting harder and harder each year. Several factors have made the game harder for authors, including increased competition from self-publishers, less people reading, and increased financial risks for mainstream publishers.

Thus as writers, it’s important for us on a grass roots level to support publishers who are helping to promote new authors and diverse forms of fiction.

Martian Magazine is doing what they can to publish quality sci-fi microfiction. They share great works from both new and experienced authors from around the world.

Micro-fiction (fiction of 100 words or less) doesn’t get much attention in the world of fiction, let alone sci-fi micro-fiction. It needs more support. Martian Magazine may not survive if they don’t get the funding they need.

More funding equals more micro-fiction, and more publishing opportunities for authors such as yourselves.

Check out their Kickstarter Here!

Black Hare Press Year Four Anthology (Horror and Microfiction)

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Black Hare Press’s Year Four anthology is now available on Amazon!

Black Hare Press is an Australian indie publisher that focuses mainly on horror and speculative fiction.

As we all know, publishing these days is HARD. Therefore, I appreciate this publisher because they create numerous opportunities for authors around the globe to share their creativity. One of their focuses is on microfiction, which allows them to accept and publish a large amount of content on an almost daily basis.

Black Hare Press has also created a great community for their writers, and they have many fun contests which challenge writers continuously with new ideas.

I would definitely recommend this publisher if you are looking for a home for your works of horror or speculative fiction.

I myself have two works of microfiction in the anthology listed above. Please read and leave a positive review if you can.

Year Four – Black Hare Press Anthology

Black Hare Press Website

Black Hare Press’s Collection of Horror and Speculative Microfiction

A Long List of Short Fiction Publishers

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Writers know that size matters.

When searching for places to submit shorter works, word count is key. This website lists publications that accept prose of 3,000 words or less. It is quite a lengthy collection of publications and allows you to search by word limit.

Check out the very long short list here.