Monthly Recap Live! #4 in 2025

Going on Around TiF Town:

TiF Voices - Just a reminder that you can now submit an audio recording of yourself reading your story to TiF where it may be featured in a future weekly (Monday) email. More information about that can be found on our FAQs page.

TiF Monthly Recap will continue to be Live. I hope to have on a special guest for you each month. These happen on the first Wednesday of the month and the stories featured will be a 50/50 split between highlighting select stories from previous weekly issues as well as some new stories that have not been featured before. If you are wondering who gets a medallion vs who does not? Any story with an “*” in front of it (one or two) receives a medallion. This will change starting next month (June) when weekly featured stories will no longer receive medallions.

Medallion Update - I’ve changed the folder access to the main “Monthly Recap” folder that includes all 12 months of 2025. Each month will be updated as they happen. This will make it a lot easier on me to just update the folder and not have to give access on a per-folder basis moving forward. I have also added the March medallions which I had not realized till today that I neglected to put in the folder, so if you were looking for yours from March, you can now find them in the designated folder.

Weekly Emails - Starting Monday, May 12th, there will only be 10 featured stories and 5 honorable mentions. There will be NO medallions for weekly stories. All medallions will only be given to stories in the Monthly Recap emails on the first Wednesday of every month.

TiF Presents…Eye See You (A Friday the 13th Writing Event/Contest) - A mouthful, I know. But things are developing as we go along. I hope to have more concrete information to share with you in the coming weeks as to judges for the contest portion and possible prizes as well!

— Erica Drayton, Editor-in-Chief😈

Issue #14 | Issue #15 | Issue #16 | Issue #17 | Issue #18
* = New Fiction | ** = Honorable Mention

POETRY

demeter at dusk - 4/29/25 [Literary Fiction]

M.Devereaux

of DISTILLIST.

**Merlin - 5/1/25 [Free Verse]

Jude Goodwin

of JUDE GOODWIN // CANADIAN POET

*heavy body...organs - 4/26/25 [Free Verse]

alex b.

of abstract alex

*What if Heaven and Hell Were Reversed - 4/17/25 [Speculative Fiction]

Mina Howell

of Mina Howell

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MICRO/FLASH FICTION

The Wheel and the Glass - 4/8/25 [Historical Fiction]

Elisabeth Grace Foley

of The Second Sentence

**Demon - 4/22/25 [Horror]

Layla Shaw

of Layla Shaw

*Temperamental Twisters - 4/4/25 [Fantasy]

Josh Louis

of Fantasy and Fellowship - Fiction by J. Louis

*If Pretty Is as Pretty Does... - 5/2/25 [Speculative Fiction]

Stories Sown With Hope

of Stories Sown With Hope

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SHORT STORY

**Comatose Living - 3/29/25 [Literary Fiction]

Alex England

of Alex England

**Richter’s Box - 4/17/25 [Horror]

Drew Valdez

of MEAT SANDWICH

Child of Clay - 4/22/25 [Horror]

Garen Marie

of Only Child Originals and

Keith Long

of Loser’s Fiction

*The Collector - 4/20/25 [Horror]

A. R. Eldridge

of The Eldridge Horror

*# 1 2 3 - 4/5/25 [Science Fiction]

Jack Nagy

of Scrapbook

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SHORT SERIAL

**Holy Smokes, Part 1 - 4/6/25 [Horror]

Theo Priestley

of Tales of the Unexpected

Blue Canary [Part 1 of 2] - 4/15/25 [Horror]

A.P. Murphy

of The Strangeness Kit and

James Worth

of Just Wonderin’

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SERIAL

The Call [Murmurs in the Walls, Ep. I] - 3/29/25 [Mystery]

Bridget Riley

of Naptime Novelist

*The Flaming Furies [Shadows in the Spotlight, Ep 12] - 4/1/25 [Mystery]

Mona Walsh

of Shadows in the Spotlight

*Acting Captain [Captain's Away!, Ch. 26] - 4/22/25 [Science Fiction]

Joe Mahoney

of Assorted Nonsense

*Anthony’s Angel [Ch. 22] - 3/30/25 [Romance]

Jhéanell • WESTONBERRY TIMES

of Love Stories by Jhéanell Westonberry

*Brice [What's a Dragon?, Ch. 43] - 4/30/25 [Fantasy]

Dragon Writer Luc

of The Dragons’ Den

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