All submissions must be 1,000 words or less. There is no minimum word count, but our upper limit is set in stone.

All submissions should be sent either in the body of your email or as a .doc/.rtf document to this email address. Submissions sent to our regular submissions email address will not be considered for the special fantasy issue. If you are pasting your submission into the body of your email, please use plain text without any special formatting. A garbled submission is a pain to read and is easy to avoid.

Include your legal name, your name as you want it published, your mailing address, your email address and a short biography to be published with your story. You may also include a link to your personal website. Submissions without this information may be rejected upon receipt, even if we've published your work before.

Please have the words "FANTASY SUBMISSION" in your subject, as well as your story's title. Emails received without the proper subject will be deleted as junk mail. We send an email acknowledging receipt of every submission. If you do not receive an email within fourteen days, assume we have not received your submission and resend it.

Please send only one submission per email. We do not limit the amount of submissions per author, per quarter, but we do need each and every submission sent in a separate email with all of the above requested information in each email. We will reject any emails that have more than one submission in it.

Please tell us if your submission is a reprint. We do consider reprints for publication, as long as the author discloses where the story was previously published and assures us that they retain all rights to the story. If you do not tell us your submission is a reprint and we see it published elsewhere (regardless of how long ago it was) your story will be rejected.

We will send acceptance and denial letters as soon as we've made a decision on your story. PLEASE NOTE: Some stories may be held for voting. Voting will not be held until August 5, 2008, so you may not hear back on whether or not we've accepted your story until mid-August. We will notify all authors no later than August 15th, 2008.

***

PLEASE NOTE:
REGARDING SIMULTANEOUS SUBMISSIONS: We WILL NOT accept simultaneous submissions. We don't want to reserve a slot for your story, only to have you pull it for publication elsewhere. Some stories may be held for voting, which will not be held until August 5, 2008, so you may not hear back on whether or not we've accepted your story until mid-August. Please do not submit your story elsewhere until we notify you we are declining your story.

All stories accepted for our special fantasy issue will receive a special 2008 compilation CD*, as well as a year's subscription to Flash Me Magazine. The CD is valued at $10 US, and the year's subscription is worth $8 US. We will not be offering any cash payment for this special issue.

EXCEPTION:

ONE story that is accepted for our special fantasy issue will be chosen as our Feature Story. Feature story winners receive $20 US via PayPal in addition to the 2008 compilation CD* and year's subscription.

* The special 2008 Compilation CDs will be available for pick-up at the World Fantasy Convention in October of 2008. Authors who cannot attend either convention can choose to have their CD mailed to them in November 2008.

***

RIGHTS: We are buying Exclusive Electronic Rights for a period of three months. We require permission to use accepted stories in our free online issue, our PDF subscription, and any future CD versions produced. We require permission to archive the story online for one year. We will continue to archive the story unless the author requests we remove it. If we decide to publish an anthology or print versions at any time in the future, we will contact the authors for permission to reprint their stories.

PLEASE NOTE: All four 2008 issues will be compiled into a special CD which will be on sale at the World Fantasy Convention in October of 2008. The CD will be available for purchase online in November 2008.