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COMIC/CARTOON
Unbound #376 - 1/8/25 [Humor]
Douglas Laubacher of iNKWiTs Sunday Funnies
POETRY
The Spill - 1/6/25 [Free Verse]
Misty Violet of The Violet Grove
Gleam - 1/10/25 [Free Verse]
Matt Gerrity of Bluebird Fiction
MICRO/FLASH FICTION
Cloudless Sky - 1/6/25 [Speculative Fiction]
Miguel S. of THE FICTION DEALER
Beleaguer - 1/7/25 [Ghost Story]
J.J.A Smith of The Ergodic Engine
A Dragon Dance - 1/9/25 [Fantasy]
H. A. Titus of Tea and Tales
Skyglass - 1/4/25 [Fantasy]
E.K. MacPherson of Ether Nothings
Crystal Sisters Last Stand - 1/8/25 [Speculative Ficton]
Leeron Heywood of Writing from Weird
A very special table - 1/7/25 [Romance]
Emme Shachory of Kite Weather
Change is as good as a rest…. - 1/6/25 [Horror]
Daniel O’Donnell of Dans Deliberations
A Helping Hand - 1/9/25 [Horror]
Alexander Blaine of Dark Fiction Bodega
SHORT STORY
The Redcross Shop And The Codpiece - 1/4/25 [Comedy]
Kerrie Noor of Getting Through The Day With Comedy
The Day the Cars Died - 1/5/25 [Science Fiction]
S M Garratt featured in SUM FLUX
Play Your Hand - 1/5/25 [Speculative Fiction]
Brian Reindel 👾⚔️ of Future Thief
Act of War - 1/6/25 [Horror]
Jim Minns of Reality Dispatch
Changing Seasons - 1/6/25 [Literary Ficton]
Max Windom of Max’s Substack
SHORT SERIAL
The Raising Up of Niccólo [Part 1] - 1/10/25 [Magical Realism]
A. A. Kostas of Waymarkers
SERIAL
Micah [Transition, Ch. 1] - 1/10/25 [Science Fiction
Ian Patterson of They don’t all have to be good
Verification [What's a Dragon?, Ch. 27] - 1/8/25 [Fantasy]
Dragon Writer Luc of The Dragons’ Den
Troubleshooting - 1/6/25 [Science Fiction]
ZK Hardy of Inkdrift: Rainbow Station
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Outside Air - 1/6/25 [Free Verse]
Madeline Legere of Voices of the Mad [Poetry]
Give me your Tragedy [Part 1] - 1/10/25 [Horror]
Liath LaVerne Hawke of The 100k Novelist [Serial]
Part 2 - 1/7/25 [Horror]
David Canning-England of David Canning-England [Serial]
People of the verdance [Ch. 10] - 1/9/25 [Fantasy]
A.M. Ward of Heaven and Earth: The Heshra Chronicles [Serial]
Final Launch Approval - 1/7/25 [Science Fiction]
Karl Gallagher of Karl K. Gallagher’s Stories [Short Story]
Two announcements of importance to share with you all today as we had our second TiF Weekly, Live! But before I get into what those are, I want to mention one thing about timing:
I am working on how best to create the post, PDF, medallions, etc. ahead of time so that once I’m done going Live I can share the post with you ASAP. Today, I hit a bit of a snag when I discovered a typo. Typo’s mean I have to go back and correct a bunch of stuff that are labor intensive. In any event, while I wanted to share this an hour ago, I am late and you may not care one way or the other, the post is going out, I pride myself in hitting a set time each Monday. I took for granted scheduling these Monday posts and having it all done the night before. The Live aspect means I can’t do that for a number of reasons I won’t go into. Because of this I’m going to give myself a bit of grace and change the scheduling to having the Live as usual at 10am EST but then attempting to share the post with you by 12pm EST. I hope that 90min+ will be more than enough time for me to do what must be done.
Now, with that out of the way:
TiF Annual Recap of 2024 is coming on Wednesday! I am happy to report that his is all done. However, I want to celebrate! And with that celebration I want to do a Live! on Wednesday, January 15th at 10am EST. I hope to have the largest turn out for this one as I will host a Q&A, share some behind-the-scenes on how I put this all together, and just give you some facts on it all and perhaps share some plans I have for the foreseeable future. Mark your calendars! Oh, and of course, you’ll get access to download the 605 page PDF immediately following the Live!
The first TiF Presents… is happening in time for Valentine’s Day and the theme is, :drum roll, please:
To learn more and submit your story, click the button below. But some of the important things to know:
Submissions Close on Friday, January 31st.
Your creation must have been done between January 13 - January 31 and can be shared as you wish after February 14th. Previously shared/published work will not be featured.
Meg Oolders of The Romantic will be Hosting this event alongside me as we select our favorites.
A TiF Presents…, Live! will take play on Friday, February 14th where we’ll discuss our favorites as well as share that post where you can read them directly on Top in Fiction!
We can’t wait to see what you’ve got in store, using the theme of Return to Sender.
— Your Most Trusted Fiction Curator 😈
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TiF Weekly, Live! is every Monday at 10am EST. Download the app! It’s the only way to watch:
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We’ll be back next Monday for another amazing list of fiction stories worth reading! If you enjoyed any of these stories, please consider sharing this post everywhere:






















