Booth, a literary magazine rooted in the graduate writing program at Butler University, has long been a venue for fiction that values craft, voice, and the unquantifiable human presence behind the sentence. The journal's aesthetic is not easily reduced to a single school or trend; it has published work that ranges from the formally restless to the quietly devastating, always with an eye for writing that earns its effects. This call for fiction is an invitation to enter that lineage—not as a contestant in a prize, but as a contributor to an ongoing conversation among writers who take the short story and the novel excerpt seriously as forms. The submission parameters are deliberately simple: one story at a time, no more than 7,500 words in a single document. There is no theme, no required subject matter, and no promised prize beyond publication itself. What the journal offers is editorial attention from readers who are themselves writers and teachers, and the possibility of joining a roster of contributors whose work has appeared in a magazine with a distinct institutional identity. The fee of $3 is modest and standard for many literary journals; it supports the infrastructure that allows submissions to be read and responded to. The explicit prohibition on generative AI is not incidental. Booth is asking for work that is unmistakably authored—shaped by a human hand, a human ear, a human sense of what a story can do. The submission form requires a confirmation to that effect, and the language of the guidelines makes clear that this is a matter of integrity, not merely policy. For writers who work slowly, who revise, who understand that fiction is a technology of empathy and not a product to be optimized, this call is an invitation to submit accordingly.