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Deadline: April 11th, 2015 Payment: 12.5 cents per word Fireside is open to flash-fiction submissions We are accepting submissions of flash fiction (1,000 words or less, firm limit) from March 15-April 11. Please read all the guidelines before following the submissions link at the bottom of the page. Payment, etc. Fireside pays 12.5 cents per word, with payment on completion of edits. We buy first world publication rights and six-month exclusivity, as well as the right to reprint the story once, non-exclusively, in a Fireside anthology.   Please DO NOT resubmit stories that we have previously rejected, even if you have revised them. They will be rejected unread.   You may only submit one story to us at a time. If you receive a rejection from us while we are still accepting stories, please wait one day before submitting another story.   Please do not submit a story that you have already submitted elsewhere but have not heard back from. (Often called simultaneous submission.)   We are not looking for poetry, nonfiction, reviews, art, or anything else but fiction. What we are looking for Fireside’s goal is to publish great storytelling, regardless of genre. What do we mean by great storytelling? We want stories that go somewhere, with plot and a beginning, middle, and end. We’re not looking for character studies or metafiction or hallucinatory visions. (We LIKE those things; it’s just not what we publish in Fireside.)   I’ll let Neil Gaiman say it again, as I have in our Kickstarters. This is from his introduction to his “Stories” anthology, writing of his response to a question about what quote he would want inscribed on the wall of the kids’ section in a public library. He captured the reason why we love good stories in his response:   I’m not sure I’d put...