Stone's Throw
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Last checkedStone’s Throw is a monthly online companion publishing short, sharp literary-noir, crime, and dark-fiction stories before collecting them in an annual print anthology.
Response time info: ~51 days; sourced from The Submission Grinder
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Monthly prompt-based dark fiction, crime, and noir stories of 1,000–2,000 words; the November prompt seeks stories about revolutionaries, rebels, agitators, or terrorists and their plans going wrong. Submissions are open October 1–4, 2026, with some timing flexibility. One story is selected and published online the following month; writers may submit only once per calendar year after an acceptance.
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