Monthly Recap #2 in 2024

August 3, 2024 - August 30, 2024

Dear Fiction Reader,

Now that we have 8 issues under our belt, I think it’s safe to say this experiment has been a resounding success, so far. I’d love to keep the momentum going.

I want to ask a favor of you, but only if you can spare/afford it. I’d like to use a custom domain (topinfiction.com) for this Substack. I could go into the details about the SEO and all that stuff but I don’t want to bore you with all that. Unless you want to hear about it? In which case let me know in the comments and I can certainly write up a detailed post in my main Substack all about the benefits to using a custom domain. Anyhow, the cost is a one-time fee of $50 USD.

If you can make a one-time donation (any amount), any that I get from BMAC (Buy Me a Coffee) will go towards this fee. I’ve already used previous donations to acquire and register ownership of this URL. Thank you for your continued support.

ONE MORE THING - MEDALLIONS UPDATE

Any New Fiction and Honorable Mentions featured in these Monthly Recaps will now also receive a Medallion! You can find yours here: Monthly Recap #1 and Monthly Recap #2. If your Medallion isn’t in either of the folders, you will find yours in the week your story originally appeared in.

Issue #5 | Issue #6 | Issue #7 | Issue #8
* = New Fiction | ** = Honorable Mention

POETRY

The Nordic Witches **

Daniel W. Davison

of Lamp Post in the Marsh

Soul Sister *

Kathy Brown

of Little Love Stories

Poor Queen Jocasta *

Isha Jain

of The Indian Story

We Marry Our Mothers, We Marry Our Fathers *

Sherman Alexie

of Sherman Alexie

MICRO/FLASH FICTION

They Don't Pack Light, Do They? *

Courtenay Schembri Gray

of The Maple Moon

SHORT STORY

Of Labor and Love

Bridget Riley

of Naptime Novelist

The Good Egg

Sean Thomas McDonnell

of Automatic Writer

Aggie *

Ken Flyingheart

of Echoes from the Wall

Questions at Midnight

Lauren Salas

of Cobwebs and Candles

The Thin Man *

A. B. Frank

of Victorian Vignettes

The Last Cigarette *

Sergej Klementinovski

of Writer’s Odyssey

From Dust to Dust *

Brian Reindel 👾⚔️

of Future Thief

Marina Grande *

Adam Dalby

of Adam Dalby

SHORT SERIAL

The Shell [Part Seven, Finale] **

S.E. Reid

of Talebones 🔭

The Quest for Eden [Part 1 of 2] **

Alex S. Garcia

of The Xen’in Universe

SERIAL

Footsteps and Falling [The Last Temptation of Winnie-the-Pooh, Chapter 12]

Thaddeus Thomas

of Deeper Stories

The Lion Cage [Only by the Grace of the Wind, Chapter 11] *

Ben Zalkind

of A Very Narrow Bridge

Hope at the end of the world [There Is Hope, #12] **

Claudia Befu

of Story Voyager

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