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The Cove

Hanna Delaney

Horror

Chapter one of a new serial?

https://open.substack.com/pub/hannadelaneywrites/p/the-cove?r=21tibm&utm_medium=ios

This is a banger.

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Shipwreck Dice Virus

@edithbow

Horror sci-fi

Short story

https://open.substack.com/pub/etherdreams/p/shipwreck-dice-virus-pt1?r=21tibm&utm_medium=ios

Edith’s putting out some crazy stuff.

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Story Title: TruthStack

Writer: Annie Hendrix

Genre: Dystopian

Type: Short Story

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/anniehendrixwrites/p/truthstack?r=3lda94&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Note: “Nina dragged herself away from the exposed sidewalk and rolled down a grassy slope as bombs two, three, and four took down the Old Cathedral and debris whizzed over her head.”

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THE TRUTH OF WHO WE ARE

SCRIBBLER -- THE GOLDEN YEARS

FICTION - NOVELLA (SHORT SERIAL) Literary Fiction

https://benwoestenburg.substack.com/p/the-truth-of-who-we-are-8db?r=254e8w

The last concluding piece to my novella

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Title: Little Butterfly

Writer: feastsandfables (Just Write, Right)

Genre: Literary Fiction

Type: Short Story

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/justwriteright/p/little-butterfly?r=56lr6&utm_medium=ios

Note: Entered for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award. Written for all the children who lose their childhoods to conflicts and wars.

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Story title: The White Duchess

Writer: Liz Zimmers

Genre: Speculative

Type: Short Story

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/lizzimmers/p/the-white-duchess?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2byo0o

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Title: Rinko

Writer: Sean Thomas McDonnell

Genre: Sci fi

Type: Microfiction

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/automaticwriter/p/rinko?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2byo0o

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Title: All Who Wander

Writer: Sean Thomas McDonnell and EJ Trask

Genre: Horror

Type: Short Story

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/automaticwriter/p/all-who-wander?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2byo0o

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Story Title: Episode 8: Patti Playpal - The Truth About Sadie Wilkins

Writer: S.L. Stallings

Genre: Paranormal fiction

Type: Serial

URL: https://merakiwriting.substack.com/p/a-haunting-at-vanity-theater-e78

Note: Sadie discovers the truth about who she is and why she is constantly harrassed by entities.

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Story Title: Snow Blind

Writer: Badger Scratch

Genre: Fiction, Humor

Type: Micro?

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/lorenvictory/p/snow-blind?r=43m39u&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Story title: Ciao, SETI!

Writer: Evelyn Brunswick

Genre: Sci-fi

Type: Short story/novella

URL: https://inadifferentplace.substack.com/p/ciao-seti-intro-and-part-18?r=2s9hod

Note: If there was a sub-genre it would be humour. This is part 1 of 8 in total (to be released weekly). I could also say the 'type' is serial, as although this story is self-contained it's the first in a series.

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Hi Erica & team - Thanks so much for this undertaking, and for the recognition (twice so far, so appreciated).

Here's another submit:

Story Title: Centenary: 100-word stories from Living Well Towers

Writer: Andrew Horan

Genre: Literary Fiction

Type: Micro/Flash Fiction

URL: https://centenary.substack.com/p/day-76-jimmy-dunne-anne-ruth-woman3

Note: This micro fiction 100-word stories compose my serial novel, Centenary. Day 76, and Jimmy Dunne is laying some truth on the Happy Hour ladies.

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Story Title: I Confound my Enemies

Writer: Irshaad

Genre: Psychological horror

Type: Flash Fiction

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/unfinishedspeedwriting/p/i-confound-

my-enemies?r=2qufyf&utm_medium=ios

Note: Written against a 10 minute timer - so it’s short and to the point.

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Story Title: Forever looking for forever

Writer: Outside The Therapy Room

Genre: Literary Fiction

Type: Short Story

URL: https://rolandoandrade.substack.com/p/forever-looking-for-forever-7f8?r=20ov80

Note: A very short story about love and soulmates

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Story Title: INGRESSION (Chs. 6+7)

Writer: @reiditwrite

Genre: Science Fiction

Type: Serial

URL: https://consilienceseries.substack.com/p/ingression-index

Note: The series encompasses dystopian, cli-fi and first contact elements. Chapters are issued twice weekly. The first chapter in the series this week won the Lunar Awards #8 'First Chapter' competition.

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Story Title: End of Days

Writer: Michael Serrur

Genre: Literary Fiction

Type: Flash Fiction

URL: https://michaelserrurauthor.substack.com/p/end-of-days-a-story-in-60-seconds

Note: A very short story about love, hopelessness, and gratitude.

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Title: Stone Collectors

Writer: Thomas Foydel

Genre: Literary Fiction

Type: Short Story

Url: https://open.substack.com/pub/falsechoices/p/stone-collectors?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=27s0s

The stone walls of New England are astonishing for the uninitiated, like life's surprises.

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Story Title: Don't Move Your Desk

Writer: Rhiannon D'Averc

Genre: Queer romance

Type: Serial

URL: https://crowhillcove.substack.com/p/dont-move-your-desk-chapter-twenty-six

Note: After a long build-up of 25 chapters, this week, our main characters FINALLY kissed. I'm nothing if not a writer of slow burn. The book has been released as an ebook, so if you like this chapter, you can either dive back in from the beginning on Substack and wait for the last chapters along with other readers and commenters, or get the ebook and find out what happens early!

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Story Title: On the Road to Jericho: Prologue

Writer: Sue Meredith Mann

Genre: Literary Fiction

Type: Chapter One of a debut novel being serialized on Substack

URL: https://ontheroadtojericho.substack.com/

Note: Raw, real and visceral, the opening of chapter of this debut novel packs a punch. In the hushed corridors of an empty office, despair seeps through the cracks as one soul grapples with the weight of failure and the haunting echoes of harsh words. While the other heads home to pot roast.

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Story Title: What Lay Below

Writer: Keith Loser

Genre: Horror

Type: Short Story

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/losersflashfiction/p/anthology-what-lay-below?r=3517l8&utm_medium=ios

Note: Atmospheric Horror, a man explores a recently revealed cave in his canoe.

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Story Title: The Supply Officer, 1/2

Writer: Ken Wolfson

Genre: Science Fiction

Type: Short Story

URL: https://kenwolfson.substack.com/p/the-supply-officer-part-12?r=2f2488

Note: What happens when your colony is still dependent on the outside world, and that world collapses?

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Story Title: Reflections [Part 3]

Writer: Diana Hannay of Fickle and Whimsy

Genre: Literary Fiction

Type: Short Serial

URL: https://fickleandwhimsy.substack.com/p/reflections-part-3

Note: Reflections began as a writing warm-up and evolved into an anthology of personal struggle, exploring self-doubt, childhood trauma, and low self-esteem through an unnamed protagonist whose journey resonates universally, with each part serving as a standalone glimpse or part of a larger narrative.

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Story Title: Gowns of Glory

Writer: @Preciousjane

Genre: Fantasy

Type: Short Story

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/preciousjane/p/gowns-of-glory?r=dszai&utm_medium=ios

Note: The night before the big sorcerer competition, there’s a ball - where everyone is is in their finest attire for the night, with splashes of anxiousness, sprinkles competitiveness and the most dazzling spectacles.

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Story Title: Blue Ice

Writer: Scott MacLeod/Son of Ugly

Genre: Noir

Type: Flash Fiction

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/sonofugly/p/blue-ice?r=2sz29p&utm_medium=ios

Note: A very hot rock six miles high

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Story Title: Forever in Our Hearts

Writer: Vince Wetzel, Salted Wetzel With a Side of Mustard

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Type: Short story (as part of a four-part anthology series)

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/vincewetzel/p/forever-hearts

Note: This is the final story in a four-part anthology surrounding a fictional wedding between two characters from my novels. Each story can be read individually or in a group.

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Story Title: Precocial

Writer: Oscar Ruto

Genre: Literary Fiction

Type: Short Story

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/oscarruto/p/precocial?utm_source=app-post-stats-page&r=1of53q&utm_medium=ios

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Story Title: What's a Dragon?

Writer: Dragon Writer Luc

Genre: Fantasy

Type: Serial

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/dragonwriterluc/p/whats-a-dragon-chapter-13

Note: Surely nothing can go wrong from this, right?

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Story Title: The Silenced

Writer: Toasted Fiction with Chris Patrick

Genre: Science Fiction

Type: Short Serial

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/toastedfiction/p/tongue-part-one?r=1gq5r9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Note: Part One of a short story, part of collection Ceal: A Collection Of Stories From The End Of The World

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