With so much happening behind the scenes, let’s get into what we have going at least for these last two months of 2025. Why not end on a high note, shall we?
Novel-Vember - For those lost sheep looking for a new NaNoWriMo alternative? Let Top in Fiction and TiF Press be that place for you. All you need to do to join our Forum where we check-in every 5 days to ask how you’re doing and you share your word count, is to join as a Member over on TiF Press. It’s free and very easy to join today! Just CLICK HERE!
A TiF Day of Thanks - Probably the one event this year I’m most excited for. A chance for members of the fiction community, reader and writer alike, to share a note to someone else just to say…well…Thank you! Make it personal to the person, one of their stories you read. The choice is yours. And your thanks can be delivered anonymously. Sign-ups to send your note of thanks begin on Monday, November 17th. But act quickly! This is only open for 5 days! Then get comfy cozy for Monday, November 24th when I’ll read aloud the many notes that come in. Should be an amazing day of thanks for everyone when we need it most! An email will be sent when sign-ups open. If you want EARLY ACCESS to the form, Join our Discord Server where we’ll share the Form Link a full TWO HOURS before the email goes out!
A TiF Secret Santa Plot←→Swap - Have you got your plot ready? Just 50 words to enter using the theme “What’s Inside the Box?” It could literally be anything. But remember, you won’t be writing a short story based on your own answer to this question. That would be way too easy! The challenge will come when you receive someone else’s answer and you are now tasked to write a short story based on their plot! Are you up for it? Are you ready for the most awesome Secret Santa you’ve ever been a part of? Sign-ups begin THIS Monday, November 10th and will only be open till Friday, November 14th! If you want EARLY ACCESS to the form, Join our Discord Server where we’ll share the Form Link a full TWO HOURS before the email goes out!
Any errors seen below such as typos, miss-labeling of genre or category, wrong link, wrong person mentioned, etc. please state the error in the comments and I will update immediately. Mistakes can happen. I am only human.
Issue #40 | Issue #41 | Issue #42 | Issue #43 | Issue #44
* = New Fiction | ** = New Voices
POETRY
Echo chamber - 9/30/25 [Free Verse]
Too Far Gone - 10/22/25 [Free Verse / Horror]
**The Locke Paradox - 10/21/25 [Free Verse]
*Ghost - 10/11/25 [Free Verse]
**October - 10/18/25 [Free Verse]
MICRO/FLASH FICTION
**You’ll go, then I’ll go - 10/9/25 [Speculative Fiction]
The Uneasy Morning - 10/17/25 [Speculative Fiction]
Seasonal Creep - 9/28/25 [Mystery]
**sugar addicts - 10/24/25 [Literary Fiction]
Service Call - 10/31/25 [Science Fiction]
SHORT STORY
**The Enigma at Beth Lake - 10/1/25 [Horror]
Chasm - 10/6/25 [Horror]
**The Skin Archivist - 10/17/25 [Speculative Fiction]
**The Haunting of William Thorne - 10/19/25 [Horror]
**Quinceañera of the Damned - 10/31/25 [Horror]
**Texas Tea - 10/31/25 [Horror]
**The Waters of Lethe - 10/5/25 [Speculative Fiction]
*The Croning - 10/4/25 [Literary Fiction]
*Rahab - 10/11/25 [Literary Fiction]
**The Grand Union - 10/31/25 [Mystery]
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