Dear Fiction Reader,
Now that we have 8 issues under our belt, I think it’s safe to say this experiment has been a resounding success, so far. I’d love to keep the momentum going.
I want to ask a favor of you, but only if you can spare/afford it. I’d like to use a custom domain (topinfiction.com) for this Substack. I could go into the details about the SEO and all that stuff but I don’t want to bore you with all that. Unless you want to hear about it? In which case let me know in the comments and I can certainly write up a detailed post in my main Substack all about the benefits to using a custom domain. Anyhow, the cost is a one-time fee of $50 USD.
If you can make a one-time donation (any amount), any that I get from BMAC (Buy Me a Coffee) will go towards this fee. I’ve already used previous donations to acquire and register ownership of this URL. Thank you for your continued support.
ONE MORE THING - MEDALLIONS UPDATE
Any New Fiction and Honorable Mentions featured in these Monthly Recaps will now also receive a Medallion! You can find yours here: Monthly Recap #1 and Monthly Recap #2. If your Medallion isn’t in either of the folders, you will find yours in the week your story originally appeared in.
POETRY
The Nordic Witches **
Daniel W. Davison of Lamp Post in the Marsh
Soul Sister *
Kathy Brown of Little Love Stories
Poor Queen Jocasta *
Isha Jain of The Indian Story
We Marry Our Mothers, We Marry Our Fathers *
Sherman Alexie of Sherman Alexie
MICRO/FLASH FICTION
They Don't Pack Light, Do They? *
Courtenay Schembri Gray of The Maple Moon
SHORT STORY
Of Labor and Love
Bridget Riley of Naptime Novelist
The Good Egg
Sean Thomas McDonnell of Automatic Writer
Aggie *
Ken Flyingheart of Echoes from the Wall
Questions at Midnight
Lauren Salas of Cobwebs and Candles
The Thin Man *
A. B. Frank of Victorian Vignettes
The Last Cigarette *
Sergej Klementinovski of Writer’s Odyssey
From Dust to Dust *
Brian Reindel 👾⚔️ of Future Thief
Marina Grande *
Adam Dalby of Adam Dalby
SHORT SERIAL
The Shell [Part Seven, Finale] **
S.E. Reid of Talebones 🔭
The Quest for Eden [Part 1 of 2] **
Alex S. Garcia of The Xen’in Universe
SERIAL
Footsteps and Falling [The Last Temptation of Winnie-the-Pooh, Chapter 12]
Thaddeus Thomas of Deeper Stories
The Lion Cage [Only by the Grace of the Wind, Chapter 11] *
Ben Zalkind of A Very Narrow Bridge
Hope at the end of the world [There Is Hope, #12] **
Claudia Befu of Story Voyager
Read the Meet-Up Comments for Even More Stories!
Meet-Up #5 | Meet-Up #6 | Meet-Up #7 | Meet-Up #8
Very cool! Thank you, Erica!
Thank you, what a cool list!