I just found out that Tor.com has been accepting short stories and pays pro rates. I missed this entirely. They are not listed in Duotrope or any of the other market guides.

Their current response time is well over 6 months, but they have just hired on another editor and that may change.

Now, all I have to do is find tome to write another story. A 4,000 word story pays a whole grand. I could use the cash.

Submissions should henceforth be sent via email to the newly-created [email protected]. Tor.com welcomes original short SF and fantasy, broadly defined. We're particularly interested in stories under 12,000 words, although we've made exceptions in the past and will do so again. We pay 25 cents a word for the first 5,000 words, 15 cents a word for the next 5,000, and 10 cents a word after that. Although we try to employ common sense in dealing with edge cases, “original” means original—not previously published. Contrary to some previous reports, we do not want you to query first; to submit to Tor.com, just send us your story. Stories should use standard manuscript format and be emailed as Word, RTF, or plain-text attachments. Stories sent inline in the body of an email will be ignored. Questions? Send them to [email protected].

(Is it me or does that semicolon in the sentence that starts “Contrary” look hinky? It may be right but it just doesn’t look right. The sentence should have ended with the contrary clause, but only because it fun to nit-pick editors.)