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😈
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
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
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
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’
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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