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POETRY
New Summer - 11/21/24 [Free Verse]
Jim Cummings of All Day Long
MICRO/FLASH FICTION
Thicker Than Coffee - 11/17/24 [Noir]
Scott MacLeod of Son of Ugly
More Protein - 11/21/24 [Humor]
Irshaad of Frantic Writing
Quick as Silver - 11/17/24 [Literary Fiction]
Douglas Bruton of Douglas’s Substack
On Transcience - 11/19/24 [Literary Fiction]
Hannah S. of Hannah S.
All of Them - 11/19/24 [Horror]
Karina Wilson of The Haunted Path
# 9 7 - 11/21/24 [Literary Fiction]
Jack Nagy of Scrapbook
"Hello, Hello, Hello" - 11/21/24 [Literary Fiction]
Sandolore Sykes of In the Inversion Field
Jelly Beans - 11/21/24 [Literary Fiction]
Postcard Inkblot of Postcard Inkblot
Found Family - 11/21/24 [Literary Fiction]
Ashe of The Journal of Ashe
The New Neighbor - 11/16/24 [Literary Fiction]
Sharron Bassano of LEAVES
SHORT STORY
Krampus - 11/16/24 [Horror]
Nancy Waddell of Nancy’s Substack
The Library of Lives - 11/22/24 [Science-Fiction]
FranB of Tales at Twilight
Hanging Gardens - 11/21/24 [Literary Fiction]
Oscar Ruto Chemelil of Oscar Ruto
SERIAL
Why Teach [Chapter 4] - 11/22/24 [Contemporary]
Peter Shull of lower midlist
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Emergency Bunker [Captain's Away, Ch. 6] - 11/16/24 [Space Opera]
Joe Mahoney of Assorted Nonsense [Serial]
Party Time [Bottled Embers, Ch. 12] - 11/22/24 [Science-Fiction]
Jenny Homan of Bottled Embers [Serial]
Gravity - 11/20/24 [Free Verse]
Mary Sue of The Mary Sue [Poetry]
Of Knotted Ties - 11/19/24 [Free Verse]
Jenean McBrearty of Bent Eye [Poetry]
Hypnotic [Chapter 4] - 11/19/24
Chevanne Scordinsky of The FLARE [Serial]
Haunted Postcards #8 - 11/19/24 [Horror]
J.J. Walker of After Dusk [Note]
Thank you, Erica–and all who submitted their fiction–for the opportunity to make a lot of very hard decisions this week. I was reminded how valuable it is to keep a diverse reading practice running alongside my own writing practice. It’s easy to become reliant on our signature style markers and to write in the genres we feel most secure and at home. But we miss out on potential insight and inspiration gained when we step just a few feet outside of that comfort zone to explore exotic literary locales and to immerse ourselves in the comfort zones of our contemporaries.
My fiction writing leans edgy, romantic, satirical, empathic, angsty, spicy, speculative. Regardless of genre, I love/want/need stories that make me feel things, and that usually means I need people on the page, and best-case scenario those people are either talking to each other (or themselves) or doing something, because action and dialogue are such powerful tools for revealing what makes our characters human. And humanity (and all that drives it) is what drags me into a story and holds me captive until the end.
Hats off to those who answered the call.
— Meg Oolders of Stock Fiction
TiF EXTRAS
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I am thrilled to have a story from 🌿Leaves included in this list of notables. Thanks so much for your commendation!
Both an honor for “All of Them” to be included as flash horror and a delight to have a reading list for this week. Thank you!