The Submission Window is Open Through May 30, 2012

Residential Aliens (www.ResAliens.com) is looking for a wide variety of quality speculative fiction with a spiritual foundation. Submissions need not be religious in nature. However, we do want engaging stories that are truthful to the human experience and offer the reader something of the eternal. Each free online issue features 5 short stories and is updated bi-monthly.

What to Write
Something in the PG to PG-13 range (family friendly) and anywhere along the speculative spectrum. We like all types of stories, but we don’t like explicit sexuality or vulgar language (and we totally exclude porn, gore, and evil-affirming fiction). [Note: If you write thriller, suspense, and supernatural mystery, then visit our sister publication, Fear & Trembling Magazine.]

ResAliens accepts…
+ Flash Fiction (900 to 1500 words)
+ Short Stories (1500 to 6000 words, firm upper limit)
+ Query First: Serials (2 to 4 episodic installments; up to 20k words)
+ Query First: Poetry/Verse (Limited! Note: This is a very hard sell.)
+ Query First: Artwork/Artist Interview. Email: resaliens at gmail dot com.

We Pay…
We offer a one-time payment of $5 per story or artist interview upon acceptance via PayPal (or $4 via USPS), with the option to waive this payment. We’ll also provide a link to your website and/or project page in your Author or Artist Bio. Upon acceptance, your story will appear in an electronic issue and/or print issue, including but not limited to this online venue. Please read the “legalese” section below for the rights we’re purchasing.

Send Us Your Story: Use the submission form at Fear & Trembling to submit your story and other information.
+ Please limit your subs to three per month.
+ Simultaneous submissions are fine, just let me know when you send it.
+ Reprints are a possibility (if published prior to 2008). Include publication history. (Also, please do not send stories that have been recently accepted elsewhere or are posted on your website or available as downloads from such sites as Smashwords or Amazon. Thank you.)

• Send as a doc, docx, or rtf – upload it via the submission form.
• Please use Times New Roman 12 as your font/size.
• Double space your lines, but don’t put an extra line break between paragraphs (as I’ve done for the stories here at ResAliens).
• Refer to this article for how it should look, including author info and header details. But only place one space after the period rather than the way we were taught growing up .

Also, please include a short bio and author website or blog if you have one. And tell us how you heard about Residential Aliens. We’ll respond within a week to let you know the status of your submission. If you don’t hear from us within that time, query. Also, consider registering your submission, response, and results at Duotrope’s Digest. It’s free!

Legalese
If your story is chosen for publication, ResAliens Press offers a one time payment of $5 in exchange for Nonexclusive Internet, Electronic, and Print Publication Rights to publish, via electronic means and/or by print – and only within a single issue of Residential Aliens or Fear & Trembling Magazine – your work within the next six months. What this means: ResAliens Press has six months from the date of acceptance to publish your story electronically and/or in print; after this time you may resell it elsewhere, ResAliens Press does not have exclusive use of it. You, the author, also understand that the we, the publisher, may make a profit from distributing the issue in which your work appears and agree that we are not obligated to pay royalties or share any portion of the profit with the author. This is like any other magazine out there.

(For more information on your rights as an author, read some of these articles at Writing-World.com.)

Looking for other venues? Visit Duotrope’s Digest and Ralan’s for more speculative fiction markets.

Recent Acceptances Appearing Soon at ResAliens
+ To Sing the Songs of Trees by Stephanie Kraner
+ The Mount of Olives by Nathan Weisberg
+ Code Seven by Karina and Rob Fabian
+ The Body Shop by Tom Howard
+ Heaven by Dan Hart
+ A Blue Ending by Jeffery T. Ford
+ Vultura Returns…Again by Stoney M. Setzer