Welcome to this week’s edition of Submission Sundays! Every week I bring you a unique call for submissions to help you find a home for your stories or inspire a new one. Each call will contain a speculative element and will offer payment upon acceptance.

Flash Fiction Online

Eligibility: Original or reprint speculative fiction from 500-1000 words, though reprints are paid at a reduced rate

Caveat: submissions must have no identifying information on them (anonymous)

What makes this call stand out: as a professional market, publication here counts towards SFWA requirements.

Payment: $60 per story for original fiction, and $0.02 per word for reprints

Submit by: this is an online journal with rolling submission dates

Click here to go to the original call for details.

Worthy links of the week:

(this bit is new. Is it handy to you or should I not bother? Please let me know in the comments)

This article on writing asexual characters, written by an asexual individual, is both intriguing and informative for writers. 

There are few resources on short story structure, and although using beats to structure short stories is new to me, I can see how it could help troubleshoot a story that just isn’t working. 

Writer Unboxed published this post on thirteen ways to promote your book before it comes out, for both traditional and self-published writers.

This curious article on modern alchemical experiments isn’t about writing per se, but works as an excellent resource for writers tackling the subject from a scientific perspective.