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Story Title: Sliding

Writer: Zivah Avraham

Publication Name: Poetic Licence

Genre: Autobiography

Category: Short Story

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/zivah/p/sliding?

Extra: My response to a medical emergency

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Story Title: A Very Special Table

Writer: Emme Shachory

Publication Name: Kite Weather

Genre: Romance (ish?)

Category: Micro/Flash Fiction

URL: https://substack.com/@kiteweather?r=3ln3sj&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile

Extra: Musings on the end of an imagined relationship

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Story Title: What's a Dragon? Chapter 27 - Verification

Writer: Dragon Writer Luc

Publication Name: The Dragons' Den

Genre: Fantasy

Category: Serial

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/dragonwriterluc/p/whats-a-dragon-chapter-27

Extra: We've finished with the "secret" part of Emilie's story and it's time to get into the prep!

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Story Title: Gobelin Market

Writer: K.M. McKellar

Publication Name: K.M. McKellar

Genre: Fantasy - I'm not entirely sure if it fits fantasy but there's a bit of an otherworldly element.

Category: Serial

URL: https://karenmckellar.substack.com/p/gobelin-market-part-one

Extra: Inspired by both Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott, and paintings of the same subject by the likes of JW Waterhouse. This is the first part - it's likely to be four parts in total.

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Story Title: The Day the Cars Died

Writer: S M Garratt

Publication Name: SumFlux

Genre: Sci-Fi

Category: Short Story

URL:https://open.substack.com/pub/sumflux/p/the-day-the-cars-died?r=4c2xuj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Extra: Inspired by the theme Parking Lot - TDCD follows a father as he attempts to navigate a broken America to fulfil a promise to his dead wife.

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Story Title: Troubleshooting

Writer: ZK Hardy

Publication Name: Inkdrift: Rainbow Station

Genre: Science Fiction

Category: Serial

URL: https://inkdrift.substack.com/p/troubleshooting

Extra: Next chapter in a cozy, sci-fi story about the building of a space station. Leah sold off her computer fix-it shop on the planet Izra and left her life on solid ground to live among the stars, with no prior experience of how to do it. Now, Leah has a list a mile long, and on a ship this old, sometimes things just don’t work right.

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Story Title: Change is as good as a rest ...

Writer: Daniel O'Donnell

Publication Name: Dans Deliberations

Genre: Horror

Category: Micro Fiction

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/danielodonnell/p/change-is-as-good-as-a-rest?r=2bfxud&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Extra: A 100 word short story about New Year Resolutions

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Story Title: A Malign Endurance

Writer: Eric Falden

Publication Name: Falden’s Forge

Genre: Fantasy

Category: Short Story

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/ericfalden/p/a-malign-endurance?r=3ecd72

Extra: To save his friend and satisfy his own ambition, a young novice tests the limits of magic.

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Story Title: Fall Away

Writer: Michael Serrur

Publication Name: The 60-Second Story

Genre: Dystopian

Category:Flash Fiction

URL: https://michaelserrurauthor.substack.com/p/fall-away-a-story-in-60-seconds

Extra: The sad realities of climate change

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Story Title: Tracey The Wolf

Writer: Jim Minns

Publication Name: Reality Dispatch

Genre: Horror

Category: Short Story

URL: https://jimminns.substack.com/p/tracey-the-wolf

Extra: Officer Kavesh confronts a woman who he suspects is having a bad drug reaction. The reality is a much more sinister event unfolding in the middle of a convenience store.

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Story Title: Act of War

Writer: Jim Minns

Publication Name: Reality Dispatch

Genre: Horror

Category: Short Story

URL: https://jimminns.substack.com/p/act-of-war

Extra: Former Vampire hunter Jacob is reduced to a life of aimless leisure, that is until his ultimate nemesis confronts him in a moonlight encounter.

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Story Title: Chapter II

Writer: Keith Long

Publication: Loser’s Fiction

Genre: Fantasy

Category: Serial Novel

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/losersflashfiction/p/chapter-ii?r=3517l8&utm_medium=ios

Notes: This is a heartwarming YA fantasy that I released physical copies for on January 1st. It features an audio reading by me as well.

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Story title: Part 2

Writer: David Canning-England

Publication Name: David Canning-England

Genre: Horror

Category: Serial

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/davidcanningengland/p/part-2?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=52djs3

Extra: Part 2 of a horror/fantasy serial set in a Western Style land. Ben meets a stranger who reveals a disturbing truth about the night he came to town.

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Story Title: Addilynn Runs Faster

Writer: C.S. Mee

Publication Name: The Deep

Genre: Crime Fiction

Category: Short Serial

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/csmee/p/addilynn-runs-faster?r=3v8lws&utm_medium=ios

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Story Title: Pissed Guys

Writer: Dyce Anferné

Publication Name: Assurance of Victory

Genre: Speculative

Category: Serial

URL: https://dyce.substack.com/p/pissed-guys

Extra: An elf becomes outraged over a seemingly trivial matter.

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Story Title: Quibble, chapter 39, "Subterfuge"

Writer: Joshua Lavender

Publication Name: Singular Dream

Genre: Science fiction

Category: Serial

URL: https://singulardream.substack.com/p/quibble-chapter-39

Extra: After learning from the protégé Nihal of a grave betrayal, Quibble dismisses the array of Zeros protecting her and goes rogue. On Utopia's advice, Alnasl seeks answers in the lord Cebalrai's hive and stumbles upon the sinister plot behind Nihal's disclosure. (About the novel: A sci-fi adventure, love story, dystopian warning, and poetic meditation on transhumanism, QUIBBLE asks what a technological singularity will mean for humanity’s survival — and exactly what might survive.)

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Story Title: Zero Sugat

Writer: Oscar Ruto

Publication Name: Oscar Ruto

Genre: Literary Fiction

Category: Short Story

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/oscarruto/p/zero-sugar?r=1of53q&utm_medium=ios

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Story Title: Changing Seasons

Writer: Max Windom

Publication Name: Max Windom’s Substack

Genre: Literary Fiction

Category: Short Story

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/maxwindom/p/changing-seasons?r=47lk9z&utm_medium=ios

Extra: A man returns to his grandparents house, and on his short walk away, he steps into the stages of his life as the seasons change until he’s where he is now, affected by the cyclical nature of time and loss.

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Story Title: Katy

Writer: Sharron Bassano

Publication Name: 🌿LEAVES

Genre: literary fiction

Category: Flash Fiction

URL: https://sharronbassano.substack.com/p/katy-305

A short tale of a young girl with a strong survival instinct

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Story Title: A Helping Hand

Writer: Alexander Blaine

Publication Name: Dark Fiction Bodega

Genre: Horror

Category: Flash Fiction

URL: https://alexanderblaine.substack.com/p/a-helping-hand

Extra: A down on her luck checkout clerk get's an unexpected offer from a vagrant. Her wildest dreams may soon come true, but at what cost?

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Story Title: A Bad Story

Writer: Ashley T.K.

Publication Name: Ashley T.K.

Genre: Humor

Category: Flash Fiction

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/atkthegroovyking/p/a-bad-story?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2482ee

Extra: After a hearty discussion with my girlfriend about how too many artists are concerned about whether their art is good or bad instead of expression, I was inspired to write something I'd never written before. A Bad Story is exactly what it sounds like: a funny story that is supposed to be bad. Think of it like noise music or anti-art.

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Story Title: The cry of the train

Writer: C.S. Mee

Publication Name: The Deep

Genre: Literary Fiction

Category: Short Story

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/csmee/p/the-cry-of-the-train?r=3v8lws&utm_medium=ios

Extra: This isn’t a story about Maddy

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Story Title: Final Launch Approval

Writer: Karl K. Gallagher

Publication Name: Karl K. Gallagher's Stories

Genre: Science Fiction

Category: Short Story

URL: https://gallagherstories.substack.com/p/final-launch-approval

Extra: As people lose faith in technology, they turn to other faiths to reassure them the technology will work.

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Story Title: What About The Ants?

Writer: Rosie Bannerman

Publication Name: Rosie B

Genre: Literary

Category: Flash Fiction

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/rosiebannerman/p/what-about-the-ants?r=27xjfl&utm_medium=ios

Extra: Liv struggles with a crumbling marriage, an absent son and a gap in her memory.

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Story Title: Starlight Bubbles

Writer: W.B. Foley

Publication Name: W.B.'s Substack

Genre: Horror

Category: Micro/Flash fiction

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/wbfoley/p/starlight-bubbles?r=4m5nh3&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Extra: A survivor of a beautiful disaster. She recalls the events that led her to surviving.

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Story Title: How To Cure Snake Oil | Chapter 6

Writer: Snow Hope Bones

Publication Name: Snowman Skeletons

Genre: Midrash

Category: Short Serial

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/snowhopebones/p/how-to-cure-snake-oil-chapter-6?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4diwl5

Extra: An indie-rock opera lyric graphic-short serial midrash adventure revolving around the question, of what do you do when a snake oil plague doctor turns your lover into your enemy? It's recommended to start at chapter 1 and try solving the mystery of the source material at the end of the chapters.

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Story Title: The Summer We Said Goodbye Installment 22 - The First Flakes of Winter

Writer: Jack Fitzgerald

Publication Name: Jack Fitzgerald

Genre: Literary Fiction

Category: Serial

URL: https://jackfitzgerald.substack.com/p/the-summer-we-said-goodbye-22

Extra: Since he was twelve, Cosmo has spent every summer worth remembering with Aris, who swooped in and saved him from the tumult and uncertainty of his parents' divorce. Now eighteen, they're on yet another summer adventure but with new and unfamiliar expectations crowding their lives. Will this summer be like all the rest, or will it be the summer Cosmo and Aris say goodbye?

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Story Title: An Altar of Vengeance

Writer: James Kenwood

Publication Name: Grim Acres

Genre: Sci-Fi

Category: Short Story

URL: https://jameskenwood.substack.com/p/an-altar-of-vengeance

Extra: A soldier watches nukes falling on an alien world, and cheers. In orbit, the generals see a different picture.

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Story Title: People of the verdance

Writer: A.M. Ward

Publication Name: Heaven and Earth: The Heshra Chronicles

Genre: Fantasy

Category: Serial

URL: https://byamward.substack.com/p/10-people-of-the-verdance

Extra: Today was a little too interesting, Hal thought--sinkholes, prophecies, talking bears... He was relieved to come home and find only the ordinary kind of drama.

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Story title: Quantum Topography 101

Writer: Evelyn K. Brunswick

Publication name: In A Different Place

Genre: Sci-fi

Category: Short story

URL: https://inadifferentplace.substack.com/p/quantum-topography-101-tau-ceti-three?r=2s9hod

Extra: The other sub-genre here is humour. It's 1,500 words, so a bit too long to be flash-fic. It's instructions for new (human) students thinking of enrolling on the QT101 course at Tau Ceti Three. It's very funny and brimful of offbeat futuristic/SF philosophy and you may need a drink or two to help you get through it (not a pan galactic gargle blaster though - that would be dangerous).

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Story Title: Give me your Tragedy: Part 1

Writer: Liath LaVerne Hawke

Publication Name: The 100k Novelist

Genre: Pharaonic Horror

Category: Serial

URL: https://100knovelist.substack.com/p/give-me-your-tragedy-part-1

Extra: Upset that her mother won't spend time with her, she destroys her mother's botany experiment, but finds something else.

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Story Title: Daring To Look, Daring To Leap Pt 2

Writer: Jonathan Foster

Publication Name. Jonathan Foster's The Crow

Category: Fiction

https://jonathanfostersthecrow.substack.com/p/daring-to-look-daring-to-leap-part

Extra This story is the perfect antidote to what’s happening these very days. You might even need to read this warm dip into friendship, identity and all the possibilities that come with daring to pay attention. You can find Pt 1 on a link on the page

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Story Title: The Knights of the Faerie Queens

Writer: H. A. Titus

Publication Name: Tea and Tales

Genre: fantasy

Category: Serial

URL: https://hatitus.substack.com/p/the-knights-of-the-faerie-queens

Extra: A monster prowls the edges of the Courts, slaughtering any fey it runs across. It’s up to Kestrel and Jasper, the Knights of the faerie queens, to stop the monster. But in order to do so, they’ll have to unravel curses and centuries of distrust.

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Story Title: Dragon Dance

Writer: H. A. Titus

Publication Name: Tea and Tales

Genre: fantasy

Category: flash fiction

URL: https://hatitus.substack.com/p/dragon-dance

Extra: The main character absolutely hates the cold, even though she is currently living up north. Her brother convinces her to go outside and check out something cool in the hills surrounding their house.

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Story Title: Gleam

Writer: Matt Gerrity

Publication Name: Bluebird Fiction

Genre: Poetry

Category: Poetry

URL: https://bluebirdfiction.substack.com/p/gleam-a-poem?r=3wh4fq

Extra: A short poem about experiencing wonder in nature.

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Story Title: Importunity and Tears

Writer: A.P. Murphy

Publication Name: The Strangeness Kit

Genre: Literary Fiction

Category: Short Story

URL: https://thestrangenesskit.substack.com/p/importunity-and-tears

Extra: A podcasting prophet learns the ropes and becomes a true divine messenger

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Story Title: Skyglass

Writer: E.K. MacPherson

Publication Name: Ether Nothings

Genre: Fantasy

Category: Micro/Flash Fiction

URL: https://ekmacpherson.substack.com/p/skyglass

Extra: A falling star whispers a warning.

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Story Title: Who Killed Storytelling? Part One

Writer: Michael Arturo

Publication Name: Michael Arturo

Genre: Meta-Fiction

Category: Serial

URL: https://michaelarturo.substack.com/p/who-killed-storytelling

Extra: There’s a cold-blooded psychopath on the loose whose intent is to render everyone in New York illiterate. The city that never sleeps won’t sleep until the man who killed storytelling is brought to justice.

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Story Title: Children of the Cold

Writer: Lucas James

Publication Name: The Wanderer

Genre: Fantasy

Category: Serial

URL: https://lucasjjames.substack.com/p/children-of-the-cold

Extra: There is something in the mountains.

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Story Title: A Family Reunion

Writer: [JosephWiess]

Publication Name: [Crann Na Beatha]

Genre: [Fantasy]

Category: [Serial]

URL: [https://josephwiess.substack.com/p/a-family-reunion]

Extra: Balgair and Heather await the arrival of his other two Bhannan. Amelia and Nell have arrived aboard the Moon Touched. A tender family reunion takes place.

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Story Title: Why Teach? - chapter 12

Writer: Peter Shull

Publication Name: lower midlist

Genre: Literary Fiction

Category: Serial

URL: https://pshull.substack.com/p/why-teach-chapter-12

Extra: Heartened by the revelations of his weekend, William recommits himself to his program of subversive 'old curriculum' teaching. After school, he enacts a plan he's devised to correct his unhealthy sleeping habits.

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Story: Lady Kurosawa’s suicide

Writer: JWirrowac

Publication name: the WAC Attack

Genre: History

Catagory: Flash fiction

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/wirrowac/p/lady-kurosawas-suicide?r=4hfdz3&utm_medium=ios

A woman chooses between the man she loves and the man she must marry.

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Story Title: Someday a Real Rain Will Come

Writer: Matthew Clapham

Publication Name: Letter from Hispania

Genre: Social Fiction

Category: Short Story

URL: https://letterfromhispania.substack.com/p/someday-a-real-rain-will-come?r=2cekb2

Extra: A story of two families, inspired by the recent fatal flooding in Valencia, Spain. A reflection on how the choices of the wealthily insulated affect the relatively disadvantaged.

Story Title: Last Two Standing

Writer: Matthew Clapham

Publication Name: Matthew Clapham

Genre: Science Fiction

Category: Short Story

URL: https://matthewclapham.substack.com/p/last-two-standing?r=2cekb2

Extra: A climactically apocalyptic tale of the death, and rebirth, of humanity on a ravaged world.

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Writer: J. J. A Smith

Publication Name: The Ergodic Engine

Genre: Horror - Ghost Story

Category: Microfiction

URL: https://ergodicengine.substack.com/p/beleaguer

Extra: In 200 words or less, how does a soul decide what to do with an afterlife?

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Story Title: The Raising Up of Niccólo (Part 1)

Writer: A. A. Kostas

Publication Name: Waymarkers

Genre: Magical Realism

Category: Short Serial

URL: https://waymarkers.substack.com/p/the-raising-up-of-niccolo-part-1

Extra: A merchant in the Serene Republic of Venice receives a strange calling to the east. He must decide whether to ignore the omens or pursue his destiny to Byzantium and beyond. There's also a talking donkey.

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Story Title: The Wicked Among Us

Writer: Jack Croxall

Publication Name: The Jack Croxall Newsletter

Genre: Horror

Category: Short Serial

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/jackcroxall/p/interactive-story-the-wicked-among

Extra: Six friends assemble at mysterious Loch Kaille for a 25th birthday celebration. When one of them is found dead after a violent storm, the survivors begin to suspect and then turn against each other. All under the watchful eye of something Wicked.

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Story Title: Studies in Idolatry

Writer: Elie Lichtschein

Publication Name: Hebrew Horror

Genre: Dark Academia

Category: Short Story

URL: https://hebrewhorror.substack.com/p/studies-in-idolatry

Extra: Written in the style of an introduction for a scholarly book that doesn't exist, this story discusses one sociologist's years-long pursuit for secret societies based on "idolatrous" beliefs of the Biblical era.

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Story Title: Re-solved

Writer: Scott MacLeod

Publication Name: Son of Ugly

Genre: Noir

Type: Flash Fiction

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

Note: New Years Detective Story in NYC

Story Title: Hearts and Diamonds

Writer: Scott MacLeod

Publication Name: Micromance

Genre: Romance

Type: Flash Fiction

URL: https://open.substack.com/pub/micromancemagazine/p/hearts-and-diamonds?r=2sz29p&utm_medium=ios

Note: Elder Love at the Ballpark

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Story Title: Transition

Writer: Ian Patterson

Publication Name: They Don't All Have To Be Good

Genre: Science Fiction

Category: Serial

URL: https://substack.com/home/post/p-154392002?source=queue

Extra: Chapter 1 of the prequel to my novel, Transference. A sarcastic and disaffected Micah has a wild night and wakes up to a very different reality. High in sarcasm and light in ethereal horror.

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Story Title:

Death, the Only Misunderstood part 1

Writer:

Lob

Publication Name:

Lonely or Bothered

Genre:

Fantasy/Philosophical

Category:

Short series

URL:

https://open.substack.com/pub/jameslemonade/p/death-the-only-misunderstood?r=1o8tbv&utm_medium=ios

Extra:

“Death, the Only Misunderstood” follows a soul guided by Death through reflections on life and memory. Set in a hauntingly beautiful landscape, it explores love, loss, and the truths we carry with us.

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