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POETRY
Whispers - 6/18/25 [Free Verse]
Melissa Smith of Melissa Smith
MICRO/FLASH FICTION
Out of Body - 6/13/25 [Fantasy]
Michael S. Atkinson of Michael’s Musings
SHORT STORY
The Stray - 6/16/25 [Horror]
Shane Bzdok of Matte Black
Stone Walls - 6/15/25 [Literary Fiction]
Thomas Foydel of False Choices
Hips - 6/18/25 [Literary Fiction]
Oscar Ruto Chemelil of Oscar Ruto
SHORT SERIAL
Blackwood Hollow - Children of The Blood Moon - 6/17/25 [Horror]
L.G. Wells of Ink & Shadows
SERIAL
The Boat [The Amazing Adventures of Tortoise & Gecko, Ep. 25] - 6/18/25 [Fantasy]
Chris Lynch of The Amazing Adventures of Tortoise & Gecko
What to do about Katrina [Ep. I, Act I, scenes 47-49] - 6/20/25 [Mystery]
Evelyn K. Brunswick of In A Different Place
HONORABLE MENTIONS
The Disappearance - 6/27/25 [Free Verse]
B. Eldon Calder of Null Point [Poetry]
The Sands of Stone - 6/19/25 [Horror]
Caley Robison of Caley’s Substack [Short Story]
A Very Zemu Christmas - 6/16/25 [Comedy]
Markus Laitinen of Markus Laitinen [Short Story]
The Bone Caster - 6/15/25 [Horror]
The Verdant Butterfly of The Sable Butterfly [Short Story]
The White Room - 6/15/25 [Speculative Fiction]
Omar of North African Tales [Short Story]
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TiF Around Town…
Apologies for the late email today. Lot’s going on in my life this week.
Today you’ll find the stories featured for the week. Newcomers to TiF in the Honorable Mentions section and a VOD of the interview I had with Ben Wakeman just last week to discuss his Passing Strangers as well as other publishing and writing goals/endeavors. If you missed it, you can now watch it anytime and consider this ASMR on Ben’s voice for your listening pleasure. He is, after all, my Bob Ross when it comes to a voice I can listen to for hours. I hope I’ve coaxed him into giving us a formal In the Works episode soon as well!
Now, onto some news worth noting:
TiF State of the Union - Wednesday, July 2nd, is the moment we’ve all been waiting for. Actually, no one’s been waiting for this date more than me. I can finally reveal all the secrets I’ve been keeping since, believe it or not, LAST YEAR, and every single blue print idea I have. Let’s celebrate 52 weeks of Top in Fiction releases by looking at the factual and raw data. Then switch gears to making dreams come true. I’ll even share some of the ideas I tried this past year that just never got off the ground.
— Erica Drayton, Editor-in-Chief 😈
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