Top in Fiction Week #11

Week of Sep 14 - Sep 20 | Vol. 1 Iss. 11

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POETRY

Necessary Moment - 9/15/24 [Free Verse]

rena

of one sunflower

Submerged - 9/20/24 [Free Verse]

Danielle

of The Lotus

Notes from the Sea - 9/19/24 [Experimental]

Dick Whyte

of Forgotten Poets

I Rode My Bike in the Dim Light - 9/20/24 [Free Verse]

Jonathan Potter

of Potter Poems

MICRO/FLASH FICTION

A Crowd - 9/16/24 [Fable]

A.P. Murphy

of The Strangeness Kit

Freedom - 9/14/24 [Fantasy]

Daniel O’Donnell

of Dan’s Deliberations

Short Cake - 9/15/24 [Noir]

Scott MacLeod

of Son of Ugly

SHORT STORY

The frontier land towards night - 9/16/24 [Horror]

Jennifer James

of Adventure to a Quiet Place

Rake - 9/16/24 [Crime]

Jimmy Doom

of Jimmy Doom’s Roulette Weal

The Memory Sculptor - 9/14/24 [Sci-Fi]

Harsh Munjal

of Almost Fiction by Harsh Munjal

Endless Tower - 9/19/24 [LitRPG]

Elliot Kessler

of Elliot Kessler | Indie Author

SERIAL

Daring, Darian and Disappearances [Adventures in Everlund, Ch. 5] - 9/17/24 [LitRPG]

Dungeon Mistress

of Dungeon Mistress Chronicles

Silver Threads [A River Trembles, Bk. 2, Ch. 5] - 9/20/24 [Fantasy]

Leanne Shawler

of The Môrdreigiau Chronicles

Incendium [Theda's Time Macine, Ch. 23] - 9/19/24 [Historical Fantasy]

Alison Bull

of Historical Fiction Stack

Search [Finale Part Two] - 9/17/24 [Sci-Fi]

Chris Patrick

of Toasted Fiction with Chris Patrick

HONORABLE MENTIONS

It's not that bad, being dead. - 9/19/24 [Literary Fiction]

Sandolore Sykes

of In the Inversion Field [Short Story]

Dinardo [A Pact of Thieves, Ch. 1] - 9/19/24 [Fantasy]

Rob Mortell

of Stories Have Power [Serial]

Sneakers on Marble - 9/15/24 [Horror]

Jimmy Gardner

of Clean Chaos [Flash Fiction]

The True Stories Behind The Photos In Some Of The Vogue Magazine Adverts Of The Late 1960s And Early 1970s - 9/17/24

Tom Cox

of The Villager [Micro fiction]

Karma of Kulgera [Pt. 3] - 9/19/24 [Fantasy]

Isha Jain

of The Indian Story [Short Serial]

Read the comments section for even MORE stories we just couldn’t fit in this issue.

I want to talk about TWO things today; Recommendations and Off the Stack. Let me get the more serious business out of the way first.

Recommendations - This past Friday TiF received the most recommendations/self-promotions ever with nearly 50! And while this warms my heart, I do want to point out the new “ONE GENRE” rule. There were many stories I passed over because this simple rule was not followed. If it’s your intention not to be featured in TiF and just in the comments section, you can disregard what I am about to say. However, if you DO want to be considered for future TiF issues then, LISTEN UP! When I say ONE GENRE I mean ONE GENRE. This does NOT mean putting a “/” or a “-” (or any other punctuation) in between two clearly different genres will make it count as one. It doesn’t. And I will overlook those. I am in the process of creating a general list of the most popular fiction genres that are commonly used. Again, I understand, many of you will want to state emphatically that to nail down your work to ONE GENRE is impossible. 1. I urge you to try and 2. That is what the Note area in your recommendation is for. Let us know the many other genres your story fits into there. If I let you slide what sort of precedent would I be setting? Thank you. [Oh, and before you ask, of course, this doesn’t include Sci-Fi, Cli-Fi, or any other obvious genre that normally includes a hyphen.]

With the newfound updates and features that Substack is delivering, things are either better or worse depending on where you’re standing. But I want TiF to remain that one constant that you can rely on, so when I have something new or a change I’m working on, I’m trying not to release them week-over-week. With that said, you might notice a couple of changes in the coming weeks. For today, I want to point out two important additions/changes:

Off the Stack - A newly minted page on TiF that is dedicated to promoting when the works of fiction writers are presented in a new form, namely in print and for purchase. So, if you or someone you know has shared their fiction on Substack and then self-published that work for purchase online, click the button below, and fill out this Off the Stack Google form so I can add your work to this page.

TopinFiction.com - That’s right! We now have our own URL ya’ll! With the generosity of the fiction community and fellow subscribers here, when I put out the call for assistance, all of you more than came through!

— Your Most Trusted Fiction Overlord 😈

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