Adventitious

Fiction submissions are currently closed. Submissions open at 1500 UTC on the first of every other month—February, April, June, August, October, and December—and remain open until the 5th or until the 300-submission cap is reached, which often happens within a few hours. They seek stories offering wonder through language, characters, plots, or all three; sci-fi, fantasy, speculative, surreal, and realist stories that shock or delight are welcome. Flash and micro fiction are up to 1,000 words; fiction is 1,000–6,000 words; novelettes are 6,000–17,000 words. Reprints are accepted at $0.01 per…