We believe in narrative as pilgrimage — a journey through wild and wounded places into strangeness and transformation. We read to arrive somewhere we haven’t been before, to glimpse life through another’s eyes in an attempt to understand. The work we’re drawn to is surreal, philosophical, sincere, and unforgettable — stories and essays that get under your skin and reach the heart of the human condition.
We see writers as essential voices in the fabric of society, articulating our delights and sufferings. Each piece we publish is accompanied by a brief interview with the author, offering readers a deeper sense of their world. Together, we hope they form a map of the strange pilgrimages we take through language and life.
We publish one piece each week, alternating between flash and long-form writing:
🜂 Short Stories (1001 to 10,000 words)
🜁 Essays / Narrative Nonfiction (1001 to 10,000 words)
☉ Flash Fiction (under 1000 words)
☾ Flash CNF (under 1000 words)
We’re not married to any genre, structure, or subject. We love surreal, speculative, and fabulist stories; unhinged, lyric, and fragmented essays; voice-driven experimental narratives and slow-burn realism; cultural and literary criticism; hyper-intellectual riffs and children’s stories — so long as they move. If your work is honest, well-crafted, and offers something emotionally and intellectually vivid, we want to read it.
PAY ˗ˋˏ$ˎˊ˗
We pay all our contributors:
$200 per short story/essay
$50 per flash piece
Deadline: July 20, 2026
Payments are made via PayPal within one week of publication.
We welcome submissions from anywhere in the world.
We publish one piece each week, which means we’re highly selective and read with care.
Multiple submissions are not allowed. Please only make one submission (whether that’s a story, essay, OR flash piece) at a time. After you've heard back from us, you may submit again right away if you wish to.
Simultaneous submissions are fine — just let us know immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.
We do not currently accept previously published works. Self-published pieces (on your blog, Substack, etc.), however, are welcome.
All submissions are handled through our custom submission portal.
Submissions are always free for general categories. If you’d like to support the magazine, you can become a paid subscriber, leave a tip, or request paid editorial feedback. These options help us sustain the magazine and pay our writers.
Currently, our general response time is ~4 months. We offer a $10 Fast Response option, wherein we’ll respond within 4 weeks.
We nominate for the Pushcart Prize, Best American Short Stories, Best American Essays, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net.
More information here.
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