First a market note: For those of you holding contracts for Lurid Lit's print copy of his ezine, you can tear them up. As of August 3, he's folded the zine due to financial problems caused by a lawsuit and released all stories. You can find the details at http://www.luridlit.com/
Dark Recesses is open to submissions. They're looking for stories that take a walk on the dark side. Pay attention to the guidelines because they tell you what they're looking for and how they want it submitted. Stories from 500 to 5000 words with pay at a penny and half per word with a $25 cap. http://www.darkrecesses.com/?page_id=7
Ran across this new zine that's looking for serial stories. It's called Fried Fiction and they have a query process in place. There's no pay and if your story is novel length, you'll probably lose the opportunity to have it published traditionally if you go this root, and the editor kindly states that fact in his guidelines. There's only one story up so far, from the editor, about a retired truck driver hauling freight through Zombie land, so you can get an idea of what he's looking for. Here's the url http://www.friedfiction.com/
If you haven't had lunch yet, you might want to wait to check out this litzine, the pictures alone will set your mouth to watering. Called "Eat Your Words", they're looking for poetry and prose up to 1200 words that's centered around food and the growing and eating of it. They publish every other Thursday. http://eatyourwordsjournal.blogspot.com/
"Out of the Ruins" is a non-paying market, also. They're looking for dark weird fiction of 1000-5000 words. The site is filled with all kinds of artwork that goes with the stories they've published which looks pretty cool. http://www.michaeljohngrist.com/submissions
And finally we have "Purdee" which posts audio stories. They accept all submissions, with a few exceptions that you'll find in their guidelines, but they must have the audio attached. They're looking for poetry, flash to 1000 words and shorts to 3000. http://purdeemag.yolasite.com/submissions.php The list of authors contained two I was familiar with, Joe DeMarco, editor of Mysterical-E and Wayne Scheer. I forgot to write myself a note, but I believe they accept reprints and if you're into computer gadgets this might be a fun spot to recycle some of your stories.
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Have any girly stories? I just got a story accepted at Chick Lit Review. I think I will easily be the oldest person on their list. The rest of them are in MFA programs or newly married. This is just for you--in case you ever write a story like this. I'm sure no one else writes this sort of thing on here--maybe Travis. Actually they had some males listed but not our sort.
A writer friend of mine, Sharon Poppen, who's about your age has been published there also. Me, I couldn't write a girly story to save my life, never been the girly type. I was always a tomboy, didn't have time for the frilly stuff.
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