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TiF Weekly, Live! #10

Week of Mar 1 - Mar 7 | Vol. 2 Iss. 10
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POETRY

The Way You Left - 3/7/25 [Free Verse]

of Letters from Ance

MICRO/FLASH FICTION

Every Able-Bodied Man - 3/7/25 [Historical Fiction]

of Taro Bahar

The Secret Doorstep - 3/5/25 [Fantasy]

of The Alchemy of Ink

Tomorrow Will be Jealous - 3/7/25 [Literary Fiction]

of In the Inversion Field

In a Big Country - 3/3/25 [Speculative Fiction]

of Dans Deliberations

SHORT STORY

Dazed and Confused - 3/2/25 [Literary Fiction]

of Oscar Ruto

Necessities - 3/4/25 [Horror]

of Cicada Cult

SHORT SERIAL

The Legacy [Pt. 9] - 3/2/25 [Horror]

of The Why and the Why Not

SERIAL

Warp & Woof [Ch. 3] - 3/3/25 [Science Fiction]

of Literary Salon with Thaddeus Thomas

Mud, and a mission [Ch. 16] - 3/4/25 [Fantasy]

of Heaven and Earth: The Heshra Chronicles

No Rules Required Serial [Ch. 17] - 3/6/25 [Romance]

of Romance Serials with Terra Kelly

Dinosaurs and Hermit Crabs - 3/7/25 [Science Fiction]
Rainbow Station (

) of Inkdrift

HONORABLE MENTIONS

An Unexpected Encounter [The Witch's Apprentice, Ch. 23] - 3/5/25 [Fantasy]

of The Hermit’s Pen

Calkore - 3/5/25 [Fantasy]

of Kaos Kronicles [Short Story]

Heads for Sale - 3/5/25 [Horror]

of Haints, Hollers, & Heresy [Micro/Flash Fiction]

Love Has the Power - 3/7/25 [Literary Fiction]

of Rose Alice White [Micro/Flash Fiction]

Gorgeous Beauty “Saloon” - 3/7/25 [Literary Fiction]

of Arrivals and Departures [Short Serial]

TiF TEAM MEMBERS

Sewer Rat - 3/7/25 [Fantasy]

of Your Path to Publication [Micro/Flash Fiction]

THE WEIGHT OF SURVIVAL - 3/6/25 [Free Verse]

of The Sapphic Latina [Poetry]

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The Database

What You Missed, Live! on TiF…

If you missed the Monthly Recap 2 Live, make sure you go watch it now. I got to interview

and about The Midnight Vault collection that came together from The Substack Zone that happened last November. Watch the interview then buy the book and enjoy the 29 stories featured within. You’ll be glad you did.

Order: [PRINT] or [EBOOK]

Oh, and btw, a challenge has been thrown down by me to

to join me in discussing our love of interior design. If you want to nerd out with us on the beauty of book page design, join us on Wednesday, April 2nd (time TBA).

The TiF Team

This issue is, in a way, bitter sweet. It’s the first issue where I released the reigns and let a team read through and select the stories. There have been Ambassadors in the past and I hope to continue that in the future, but this felt different. Changes were made to the submissions process and it was well received. All I had to do was put together the email and the medallions. Oh, and select the Honorable Mentions. Those are still all me!

You will notice that just below the Honorable Mentions is a brand new section to highlight any stories written by the TiF Team this week as well. As long as they have stories to share it will be a permanent part of the weekly emails.

We are still looking for more readers to join this amazing team and this great opportunity to build community. If you want to join, click the button below:

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The Database

The Send Us Your Fiction Database is up and ready to go! Now the ability to find more stories worth reading every week just got easier! The Notion database allows you to filter for your favorite writer, genre, or format. This first week got 57 submissions to get you through the week! But read quickly, because another batch will be added to this database every Monday shortly after the email is delivered. Scroll up and click The Database button that will be in every email from now on, to see it.

Update on paying for TiF Rebrand:

Hi all, I want to be as transparent as possible when it comes to anything I do within Top in Fiction and one of the things I went ahead and did was work to get a rebrand that I still strongly believe was needed. But with that rebrand came a cost. As it stands, I am paying for it myself through any funds I receive from my own personal newsletter. I don’t earn much from that funnel and your help to raise these funds would be very much appreciated. Until they are paid, I will keep you up-to-date on what’s been paid of the total cost here every week:

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