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1. Tor.com - pays $0.25 per word
2. Cosmos Magazine - pays a flat rate of $500
3. Odyssey - pays $.20 per word
4. Heritage Tales - pays a flat rate of $250
5. Heliotrope - pays $0.1 per word
6. Clarkesworld Magazine - pays $0.1 per word
7. Futurismic - pays a flat rate of $200
8. Twelfth Planet Novella Series - pays a flat rate of $180
9. Daily Science Fiction - pays $0.08 per word
10. Alfred Hitchcock's - pays $0.08 per word
11. Wrong World - pays $0.075 per word
12. Futures - pays a flat rate of $130
13. Realms of Fantasy - pays $0.06 per word
14. Jim Baen's Universe - pays $0.06 per word
15. Asimov's Science Fiction - pays $0.06 per word
16. Grantville Gazette - pays $0.06 per word
17. Intergalactic Medicine Show - pays $0.06 per word
18. Analog Science Fiction and Fact - pays $0.06 per word
19. F & SF - pays $0.06 per word
20. AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review - pays $0.059 per word
21. The Night Land - pays $0.055 per word
22. Fantasy Magazine - pays $0.05 per word
23. Universe Annex - pays $0.05 per word
24. Doorways Magazine - pays $0.05 per word
25. Redstone Science Fiction - pays $0.05 per word
26. Nature Futures - pays $0.05 per word
27. Lightspeed Magazine - pays $0.05 per word
28. Bull Spec - pays $0.05 per word
29. Dark Discoveries - pays $0.05 per word
30. Apex Magazine - pays $0.05 per word
31. Shock Totem - pays $0.05 per word
32. vMeme21 - pays $0.05 per word
33. Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - pays $0.05 per word
34. Beneath Ceaseless Skies - pays $0.05 per word
35. On Spec - pays $0.05 per word
36. Illusion Presents: Transmitter - pays $0.05 per word
37. Cemetery Dance - pays $0.05 per word
38. Wee Ones - pays $0.05 per word
39. Lenox Avenue - pays $0.05 per word
40. Dark Cloud Press - pays $0.05 per word
41. Strange Horizons - pays $0.05 per word
42. GigaNotoSaurus - pays a flat rate of $100
43. Heroic Fantasy Quarterly - pays a flat rate of $100
44. Pseudopod - pays a flat rate of $100
45. Vulgata - pays a flat rate of $100
46. Podcastle - pays a flat rate of $100
47. Tetragon Science Fiction - pays a flat rate of $100
48. Ennea - pays $0.047 per word
49. Twelfth Planet Novelette Doubles - pays a flat rate of $90.97
50. New Ceres Magazine - pays $0.04 per word
51. Enchanted Conversation, The - pays $0.04 per word
52. Onirismes - pays a flat rate of $78.56
53. Abyss & Apex - pays a flat rate of $75
54. Parabola - pays a flat rate of $75
55. The Internet Review of Science Fiction - pays a flat rate of $70
56. Basement Stories - pays $0.03 per word
57. Damnation Books - pays $0.03 per word
58. Brain Harvest - pays $0.03 per word
59. Untied Shoelaces of the Mind - pays $0.03 per word
60. Vestal Review - pays $0.03 per word
61. Weird Tales - pays $0.03 per word
62. Ideomancer - pays $0.03 per word
63. Spacesuits and Sixguns - pays $0.03 per word
64. Trabuco Road - pays $0.03 per word
65. GUD Magazine - pays $0.03 per word
66. Aberrant Dreams - pays $0.03 per word
67. Black Gate - pays $0.03 per word
68. Carnifex Press - pays $0.03 per word
69. Panverse - pays a flat rate of $60
70. Big Ole Face Full of Monster - pays $0.025 per word
71. Icarus - pays a flat rate of $50
72. Nil Desperandum - pays a flat rate of $50
73. Flash Fiction Online - pays a flat rate of $50
74. Wily Writers - pays a flat rate of $50
75. Hotel Guignol - pays a flat rate of $50
76. Hub Magazine - pays a flat rate of $50
77. Edge of Propinquity, The - pays a flat rate of $50
78. I Love Cats - pays a flat rate of $50
79. AlienQ - pays a flat rate of $50
80. TQR Total Quality Reading - pays a flat rate of $50
81. Chrysalis Reader - pays a flat rate of $50
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