Monthly Recap Live! #2 in 2025

My heartfelt thanks to

J. Curtis

and

Shane Bzdok

for joining me today to discuss the release of The Midnight Vault. And also to the many people who joined during the Live! Your presence definitely kept me on my toes. I hope I asked some worthy questions about how this collaboration came together and the many stories contained within.

Let’s all keep our fingers crossed for another some day!

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Issue #6 | Issue #7 | Issue #8 | Issue #9
* = New Fiction | ** = Honorable Mention

NOTE

Two Sentence Horror - 2/1/25 [Horror]

Brian Martinez

of Telegrams from Blooodstream City

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SUBSTACK LIVE!

Jumping with Janus - 2/26/25 [Speculative Fiction]

Jon T

of Ferns of Columbo

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POETRY

**White Horse Remix - 2/2/25 [Free Verse]

B.B. Inglis

of The Jolly Carper

**Say it with Flowers: Roses are Dead - 2/14/25 [Free Verse]

Tate Ellis

of Love to Hate and the Joy we find

Privacy - 2/22/25 [Free Verse]

Evelyn K. Brunswick

of In a Different Place

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MICRO/FLASH FICTION

Render Us Rotten - 2/14/25 [Horror]

Garen Marie

of Only Child Originals

*Campfire - 2/16/25 [Science Fiction]

SDG Lemaître

of Coracle Voyager

*Chasing Time - 2/4/25 [Literary Fiction]

Matthew Christian

of Targeted Nightmares

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SHORT STORY

Je m'appelle toi - 2/19/25 [Horror]

James Worth

of Just Wonderin’

**Wheelman - 2/16/25 [Noir]

Paul Dabrowski

of Sex, Drugs & Criminality

**Eight Minutes - 2/28/25 [Science Fiction]

Taro Bahar

of Taro Bahar

*Hot and Cold - 2/2/25 [Horror]

Shawn Brooks

of Black Sun Books

*The Uninvited - 2/13/25 [Horror]

Mina Howell

of Mina Howell

*A Murder of One - 2/12/25 [Mystery]

Daan Katz

of The Unfiltered Pen

*The Kangaroo Boy - 2/2/25 [Speculative Fiction]

Luke Skelton

of Profiltron

*Bonewhistle - 2/27/25 [Romance]

S.E. Reid

of Talebones

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SHORT SERIAL

For the Better [The Trials of The Hearken, Pt. 1] - 2/7/25 [Science Fiction]

Scoot

of Gibberish

Ink in Water [The Weight of Being Whole, Part I] - 2/16/25 [Horror]

Sandolore Sykes

of SUM FLUX

*Blackhurst Asylum - 2/11/25 [Horror]

J.P. Choquette

of Suspense that turns pages, not stomachs

*Skyline [Part 1] - 2/14/25 [Magical Realism]

Michael Arturo

of Michael Arturo

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SERIAL

The Ring [Prologue] - 2/9/25 [Mystery]

Hanna Delaney

of A work of fiction

*Snowmen are Murder [Part 5] - 2/5/25 [Mystery]

Tell Me a Mystery

of Tell Me a Mystery

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