Monthly Recap #1 in 2025

Dear Voracious Readers,

Before we get on to today’s VERY SPECIAL NEWS that was announced and shown off earlier today, I want to give one final nudge of reminder to all the writers who are subscribed to TiF!

TiF Presents… Return to Sender (A Valentine’s Day Writing Event)

The deadline for submission is in TWO DAYS (Friday, February 7th). The theme is “Return to Sender.” How you choose to interpret that theme is entirely up to you. Be it poem, card, illustration, or story.

Meg Oolders

, of The Romantic, will be looking them over and selecting our favorites, which we will share on Friday, February 14th at 10am for our first ever TiF Disruption, Live! Event.

We will share our favorites in a post that will be sent immediately following our Live Event and we will also mention all the others, with clickable links back to their newsletter where you can read their submissions. We strongly urge all participants to share their work on Friday, February 14th so that we can link back to you!

Now, onto what was shared during today’s first Monthly Recap Live!

I’ve been talking about a much needed rebrand for Top in Fiction. On so many levels I felt it was needed and if you listen to the Live you’ll hear me touch on just some of those reasons. I am so grateful to

Garen Marie

, without whom I likely would never have discovered

MARK of the BRAND

to reach out and bring my vision to life better than I ever could. Christopher truly did capture exactly what I wanted in my brain and made it what you see here today.

Make sure you send Christopher a DM on Substack so he can help you bring your vision, whatever that may be, to life on the page/screen!

In the coming weeks you’ll see the new logo, wordmark, and rebrand appear on all things Top in Fiction. Starting with the website. My next big chore, because I like uniformity, of course, is to update ALL of the medallions from 2025 with the new logo in the center. This will take time so I ask for your patience as I make my way towards updating this for everyone.

If you like/love the rebrand, or even if you just appreciate what TiF has managed to do these last 7 months, a donation would be greatly appreciated in order to pay for this rebrand. From this moment forward, all donations received will go towards paying for the rebrand.

Lastly, on Monday I will share just a few of my plans moving forward with TiF that will involve seeking volunteers to join the TiF Team and turning on paid subscriptions for the TiF Magazine (placeholder name) to start some time this Fall!

As always, thanks for being a part of this growing community! Keep reading and keep writing!

Issue #1 | Issue #2 | Issue #3 | Issue #4 | Issue #5
* = New Fiction | ** = Honorable Mention

POETRY

**Outside Air - 1/6/25 [Free Verse]

Madeline Legere

of Voices of the Mad

**Uncannyland - 1/26/25 [Free Verse]

Camelia Baker

of Camelia Baker

*the best kinds of dreams - 1/31/25 [Free Verse]

M. Anne Avera

of manic phase writing

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MICRO/FLASH FICTION

Cloudless Sky - 1/6/25 [Speculative Fiction]

Miguel S.

of THE FICTION DEALER

Day Twelve - 1/22/25 [Science Fiction]

John Coon

of Strange New Worlds

Saturnal Cancer - 1/28/25 [Horror]

M.P. Fitzgerald - Graphomania

of Graphomania with M.P. Fitzgerald

*elegance - 1/13/25 [Horror]

c.d. mudge

of unspooling

*# 1 0 8 - 12/28/24 [Literary Fiction]

Jack Nagy

of Scrapbook

*Fall Away - 1/9/25 [Dystopian]

Michael Serrur

of The 60-Second Story

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SHORT STORY

My Little Bluebird - 1/1/25 [Literary Fiction]

Aaron Martinez

of Aaron Martinez

**The Wolfman Kindly Requests - 12/31/24 [Horror]

Ashley T.K.

of Ashley T.K.

Play Your Hand - 1/5/25 [Speculative Fiction]

Brian Reindel 👾⚔️

of Future Thief

Memento Mori - 1/12/25 [Horror]

EJ Trask

of Age of Aquarius

Series of Dreams - 1/15/25 [Horror]

Elie Lichtschein

of HEBREW HORROR

**Sweet Bloody Sugarcane - 1/14/25 [Horror]

NJ

of Consume, The Blog

**A Woman Scorched - 1/21/25 [Humor]

Jo Taylor

of Characteristically Speaking

Tragedy Mill - 1/30/25 [Fantasy]

Keith Long

of Loser’s Fiction

*Arrival at Proxima b - 1/14/25 [Science Fiction]

Redd Oscar

of Redd Oscar Writes

*The Trials of Mrs. Oakwood - 1/20/25 [Literary Fiction]

Elisabeth Grace Foley

of The Second Sentence

*Slow Hands - 1/16/25 [Literary Fiction]

Josh Tatter

of Josh Tatter Has Thoughts

*The Gift - 1/15/25 [Literary Fiction]

Kanwar P. S. Plaha

of All Writes Deserved

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SHORT SERIAL

Wild Times at the Ruby Slipper [Pt. 1] - 1/20/25 [Literary Fiction]

Chris DeWitt

of Dork Mansion Dispatch

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SERIAL

Fallout [Ch. 53] - 12/28/24 [Literary Fiction]

Eleanor Anstruther

of The Literary Obsessive

*Maybe There Isn't A Good Answer [Mercy, Ch. 1] - 1/3/25 [Literary Fiction]

Jennie Robertson

of Mercy, Maine, and Me

*Children of the Cold - 1/8/25 [Fantasy]

Lucas James

of The Wanderer

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