Monthly Recap Live! #7 in 2025

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The skinny for news from this past month is that serials are finally getting their due! I’ve been wanting to come up with a way to highlight recurring (and consistent) serials for a while now and I think I have it! The Wall of Serials is currently in it’s beta stages and if you want IN, simply DM me and I’ll send over the details to get your ACTIVE serial onto the wall before it opens up for everyone/anyone to submit.

For now we are only looking for active serials. In 2026 we will begin to accept completed serials as well as short serials.

Also, we were joined by

𝐂𝐁 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧

who discussed with us her journey bringing her YA novel, Shattered, from idea to publication. Check out our conversation, buy the first book in her Forged trilogy by clicking the link below, and be sure to subscribe to her Substack to get even more information about her work!

Issue #27 | Issue #28 | Issue #29 | Issue #30 | Issue #31
* = New Fiction | ** = New Voices

POETRY

**My Apologies, Mr. Stevens - 7/23/25 [Free Verse]

Paul Wittenberger

of Paul’s Substack

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MICRO/FLASH FICTION

Carnival - 6/28/25 [Literary Fiction]

Annie Hendrix

of Annie Hendrix

So Help Me God - 7/13/25 [Mystery]

Scott MacLeod

of Son of Ugly

*Family Pride - 7/11/25 [Literary Fiction]

Feasts and Fables

of Just Write, Right

*Soulpiercer - 7/6/25 [Literary Fiction]

E.A. Colquitt

of Exploring the Eyrie

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SHORT STORY

**To Sing Against the Sea - 7/4/25 [Fantasy]

Chris Spencer-Payne

of Stories from the Dreamatorium

Incandescent Fire. - 7/7/25 [Horror]

Sean Thomas McDonnell

of Automatic Writer

**THE TROUBLE WITH TIME MACHINES - 7/9/25 [Speculative Fiction]

Gabriel Golovkin

of Gabriel’s Substack

**Plastic Kiss - 7/13/25 [Horror]

Basically Human

of Basically Human

The Last Walk of Henry Chandler - 7/20/25 [Horror]

J. Lashley

of J.’s Substack

**Glass Memories - 7/26/25 [Fantasy]

Tamsin G.

of Cozy Quill Tales

*By the Firelights - 7/31/25 [Mystery]

Layne Mercer

of The Vermillion Border

*The Lizard at the Last Free City in the World - 8/1/25 [Romance]

Frank Bard

of The Dogs of Generation X

*ROBOhospital - 7/29/25 [Science Fiction]

Gerard DiLeo

of The FRICTION SECTION

*Cowboys Only Cry When They Bleed - 7/3/25 [Literary Fiction]

Drew Valdez

of MEAT SANDWICH

*The Legend of Hackberry Hill - 6/29/25 [Historical Fiction]

Wendy Cockcroft

of Wendy Cockcroft’s Writings

*The Crown of Glass Fang and Thorn - 7/21/25 [Fantasy]

C. Maine

of No Longer A Blank Page

*Sweet Dreams - 7/5/25 [Horror]

V Kelly-Sibley

of Pandoras Box of Infinite Stories

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SHORT SERIAL

*Lucifer’s Lieutenant - 6/30/25 [Horror]

Daniel O’Donnell

of Dan’s Deliberations

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SERIAL

*The Fool [Smoke-Mouth, Ep. 1] - 7/26/25 [Fantasy]

S.E. Reid

of Talebones

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