Stories must be submitted as plain text* via our web form. Please don't put your address, word count, title, name or other information in the form. Please don't retype your entire story--copy and paste it into the form (once you've saved your document as plain text). If a story is accepted for publication, we'll contact you to incorporate any formatting and layout needed.

*Plain text means no smart quotes, no curvy apostrophes, no magic ellipses, no clever Microsoft formatting that makes your story almost unreadable by our indefatigable first-round-reading gnomes and nanobots. We don't pay them, so have to keep them happy!

Stories must be 100 to 10,000 words long. Stories under 1,000 words will have a much better chance of being published.

Please write "End" at the end of your story, so we can be certain the entire story came through.

Please don't put anything other than your story in the "story" box. Your name and address, cover letter, title, and added notes can all go into the "cover letter" box. There is no need to include a cover letter.

If your account has an incorrect email address, our response will not reach you and we will not know that it has not. Please note that our system responds to the email address you used to login, not to anything you type into the cover letter box.