TiF Week 20 in 2024

Week of Nov 16 - Nov 22 | TiF Ambassador Edition | Vol. 1 Iss. 20

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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]

Read the comments section for even MORE stories we just couldn’t fit in this issue.

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

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