Welcome to our weekly meet-up and open call for the best fiction of the week!
OPEN SEPTEMBER 13 - 14
Fiction Accepted:
Only fiction shared between September 7th - September 13th on Substack!
This open call will be available: NOW until 9pm EST on Saturday, September 14th.
Self-promotion of your fiction is welcome!
Leave a link of the story in the comments.
Submit as many as you want, so long as they were written and shared during the window mentioned above.
NO self-promotion of your work (including in the form of links) in the TiF Monday Issues. Anyone who does so will forfeit their stories from being featured in future issues. All self-promotion should happen in these “Send Us Your Fiction!” weekly emails ONLY!
Look for our email on Monday, September 16th where the Top In Fiction list will appear in your inbox! You never know what new gems you’ll discover. All we ask in return is that you share Top In Fiction to your email list and Restack the post on Monday in Substack Notes.
Just discovered this weekly meet-up and love the idea! Here is my tale from this week on Ada, Fargo, and their furry friend Poppy with the unsatiable appetite. Hope you enjoy!
Hello Erica, and thanks for asking! PodFiction features serial chapters of my debut novel, "Juniper Falls," a small-town mystery thriller. I've published Chapters 28 - 31 in the timeline above and would love to find more serial fiction readers! https://nikolasallen.substack.com/
Chapter 6 is eligible as it was posted on 9/11 and falls within the dates for this week! Welcome aboard, Melissa. Glad you have you in our little community!
"snow" a 586 word tiny story.
Thanks for doing this, Erica, for creating a community where writers can share their words.
https://open.substack.com/pub/lisitana/p/snow?r=2iypoo&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
(I feel like the slacker student submitting the assignment juuuust before the deadline!)
Hi everyone,
A couple of new stories for this week. Firstly a short fantasy story regarding the grimness of war : -
https://open.substack.com/pub/danielodonnell/p/soldiers?r=2bfxud&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
And then a fun little horror story inspired by films like Blade and From Dusk til Dawn : -
https://open.substack.com/pub/danielodonnell/p/wake-up-dead-man?r=2bfxud&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Hope you enjoy.
Thanks very much Erica.
Hey everyone,
Recently published a short story that might be getting a part 2.
Title: Am I safe yet
Here is the link!!
https://ucheiee01.substack.com/p/am-i-safe-yet
Here's a story about a man who keeps a snake for a pet. Not just any snake, the most venomous snake in the world:
https://shonistar.substack.com/p/black-snake
Hi everyone!
Just discovered this weekly meet-up and love the idea! Here is my tale from this week on Ada, Fargo, and their furry friend Poppy with the unsatiable appetite. Hope you enjoy!
https://theunofficialflorence.substack.com/p/kung-choo
Hi Erica! I just published a short story on Verse called Mirror, Mirror https://open.substack.com/pub/cameronscott/p/mirror-mirror
Ok, a very short story, which I can't categorise.
Title: I May Be Paranoid, but No Android
Genre: Mystery
Type: short story
URL: https://sergejklementinovski.substack.com/p/i-may-be-paranoid-but-no-android?r=2ogw8q
Hello everyone. I recently posted two new poems.
In “Silent Whispers”, I explain to you in 60 words why one of my essays had such an impact on readers. You can find it here: https://rolandoandrade.substack.com/p/silent-whispers
In the other poem, I explore the painful experience of suicide. You can find it here: https://rolandoandrade.substack.com/p/from-silence-to-the-abyss?r=20ov80
Hi everyone! I have a new Post this week, featuring a collection of Microfiction based around 'The Seven Deadly Sins'... 😎 You can find it here: https://chrisjfranklin.substack.com/p/the-seven-deadly-sins
Bailey has a pre-dawn epiphany, one of five 100-word stories posted this week in my serial novel Centenary: https://centenary.substack.com/p/day-62-bailey
A near-future holographic fertility clinic: https://whowillsaveher.substack.com/p/71 a scene in a serial.
The third chapter of BEATITUDE, a serialized rom-com novel about literature, love letters and luck:
https://markscottricketts.substack.com/p/beatitude-3
And thanks, Erica.
Sometimes you need to take some time to yourself to think. https://open.substack.com/pub/dragonwriterluc/p/whats-a-dragon-chapter-10
("What's a Dragon?", middle grade fantasy)
Well, coincidentally, I just put up my SCI-FI Friday entry for IN THE SHADOW OF THE MANDALORE: https://open.substack.com/pub/benwoestenburg/p/in-the-shadow-of-the-mandalore-0a5?r=254e8w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
And I have a section of my novella THE TRUTH OF WHO WE ARE as well: https://benwoestenburg.substack.com/p/the-truth-of-who-we-are-d60?r=254e8w
And for THROWBACK THURSDAY I put up a link to my other serial JACK OF DIAMONDS: https://open.substack.com/pub/benwoestenburg/p/jack-of-diamonds-215?r=254e8w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Thanks again for doing this, Erica. Here are two flashfiction pieces, both in the horror genre, for consideration.
Life After Death
https://michaelserrurauthor.substack.com/p/life-after-death-a-story-in-60-seconds
Death by Chocolate
https://michaelserrurauthor.substack.com/p/death-by-chocolate-a-story-in-60
Hello Erica, and thanks for asking! PodFiction features serial chapters of my debut novel, "Juniper Falls," a small-town mystery thriller. I've published Chapters 28 - 31 in the timeline above and would love to find more serial fiction readers! https://nikolasallen.substack.com/
I humbly submit, for your kind consideration, my latest short story, "lemons"--https://willboucher.substack.com/p/lemons
Thanks for all you do, Erica!
Title: Introducing The UPT’s most effective therapist
Genre: YA Dystopian
Type: Short Story
Description: Meet Tessa’s mentor on her hero’s journey through the FORGED Series! Book one, Shattered, will be out later this year.
URL: https://cbmason.substack.com/p/introducing-the-upts-most-effective-therapist
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Thanks for considering this, Erica!
Episode 0: Petals, first episode of my serial fiction, 'The Hanahaki Club', speculative romance genre.
https://open.substack.com/pub/lifeat235degrees/p/the-hanahaki-club?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1zmgej
The first episode of my comedy horror serial, The Ghost Diaries, debuted today: https://newworlds.substack.com/p/the-ghost-diaries-episode-i
A story from my first book soon to be out in the U.S. https://bukus.substack.com/p/the-visit?r=9brcu
First part of my serial.
Deaths of Kulgera - Hundreds died by drying in the lush green hills of Kulgera.
https://theindianstory.substack.com/p/deaths-of-kulgera
Will Boucher's "Lemons" did it for me this week: https://substack.com/home/post/p-148654632?r=5v4m&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I got another one, this time inspired by a submission from last week's call, "Dreams" By David O'Donnell.
https://open.substack.com/pub/johnbcalvin/p/what-couldve-been?r=2kb11f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Clean Up - a short story by me.
https://phoebetales.substack.com/p/sunday-shorts
This week’s new flash fiction on Son of Ugly is a sentimental 9/11 story. Thanks for this great platform.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sonofugly/p/last-call?r=2sz29p&utm_medium=ios
https://lorenvictory.substack.com/p/get-your-finger-out-of-my-ass-before?r=43m39u
Chapter 6 is eligible as it was posted on 9/11 and falls within the dates for this week! Welcome aboard, Melissa. Glad you have you in our little community!