Welcome to our weekly meet-up and open call for the best fiction of the week!
OPEN JULY 19 - 21
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Fiction Accepted:
Only fiction shared between July 13th - July 19th on Substack!
This open call will be available: NOW until 9pm EST on Sunday, July 21st.
Self-promotion of your fiction is welcome!
Leave a link of the story in the comments. Please say the GENRE as well (if applicable).
Submit as many as you want, so long as they were written and shared during the window mentioned above.
Look for our email on Monday, July 22nd 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.
First part of 4 - a different kind of 'Fairy Tale' (not the kind for kids...), including VoiceOver...
"Our Liminal Inheritance - a Tale of Wild Roots and Belonging" takes us deep into the Heart of the Green-World to re-awaken the truer, wilder, more ancient parts of ourselves...
Nothing new this week from me, so I’m looking forward to the round up (and will be peeking at my inbox now to see if there was something I loved this past week.
(total side note): I just clicked on comments to see what had been shared so far and the font switched to whatever you wrote in rather than the classic font all of Substack is required to use. Is this a new feature? Anyway, wanted to share in case you didn't know it. (I'm on my web browser, not in the App.)
First part of 4 - a different kind of 'Fairy Tale' (not the kind for kids...), including VoiceOver...
"Our Liminal Inheritance - a Tale of Wild Roots and Belonging" takes us deep into the Heart of the Green-World to re-awaken the truer, wilder, more ancient parts of ourselves...
https://brighdejohannsen.substack.com/p/our-liminal-inheritance-part-i
This series of vignettes is a solid introduction to my serial novel in progress: mystery, soft sci-fi, cli-fi, romance, and action. https://open.substack.com/pub/whowillsaveher/p/34
https://shonistar.substack.com/p/what-really-went-down-at-openai That's mine. Satire.
Here's one I just read and loved: https://slake.substack.com/p/a-type-of-pencil
Thanks so much.
My one and only vampire story.
https://lizzimmers.substack.com/p/give-me-your-life?r=1zdam3
Hi Erica,
My two new 50 word short stories from today :-
https://open.substack.com/pub/danielodonnell/p/quiet-magic?r=2bfxud&utm_medium=ios
Thanks very much
https://dragonwriterluc.substack.com/p/whats-a-dragon-chapter-2
Middle grade "low fantasy" (magic on real Earth) novel. I recorded myself reading this aloud for you!
https://substack.com/@centenary Days 29 - 33 published this week. A serial novel published in 100-word stories.
My fiction is a little buried on the page. But I started a personal 30 day micro-fiction (mixture of fantasy/horror) challenge!
https://www.becomestorybound.com/p/finding-joy-in-experimentation
The genre is in the subtitle: https://www.storyvoyager.com/p/the-dust-pirates-children
Thank you for this opportunity.
July 17th I put up a chapter in the continuing saga of THE SHIELD OF LOCKSLEY, a serial novel that takes place during the last days of King Arthur. Won't you come by and take a look? https://open.substack.com/pub/benwoestenburg/p/the-shield-of-locksley-4ef?r=254e8w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Nothing new this week from me, so I’m looking forward to the round up (and will be peeking at my inbox now to see if there was something I loved this past week.
Flash fiction, comedy/growing up themes: https://open.substack.com/pub/anastasiagj/p/london-is-calling?r=468wx3&utm_medium=ios
Doubt this one will fit but you never know... 'Where Are You' (Horror - 300 Words)
https://iheartheirvoices.substack.com/p/where-are-you
July 15, second installment in dark fantasy series
https://billhiatt.substack.com/p/security-breach?r=1fo54h
July 17: excerpt (if you take those) from YA fantasy novel
https://billhiatt.substack.com/p/faerie-mischief-at-the-valentines?r=1fo54h
July 15, Literary Speculative, Serial Novel:
https://benzalkind.substack.com/p/chapter-8-shrewsbury-clock
Fantasy
https://open.substack.com/pub/jimmydoom/p/words-on-the-window?r=2r4ud&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
July 14. Baseball adjacent flash.
https://open.substack.com/pub/sonofugly/p/stranger-in-egypt?r=2sz29p&utm_medium=ios
(total side note): I just clicked on comments to see what had been shared so far and the font switched to whatever you wrote in rather than the classic font all of Substack is required to use. Is this a new feature? Anyway, wanted to share in case you didn't know it. (I'm on my web browser, not in the App.)
July 15, 16, 17, and 18. A serial short story in four parts. Speculative Fiction.
"Vegas Man"
https://cliffordstumme.substack.com/p/after-las-vegas-was-destroyed-by