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POETRY
The Way You Left - 3/7/25 [Free Verse]
MICRO/FLASH FICTION
Every Able-Bodied Man - 3/7/25 [Historical Fiction]
The Secret Doorstep - 3/5/25 [Fantasy]
Tomorrow Will be Jealous - 3/7/25 [Literary Fiction]
In a Big Country - 3/3/25 [Speculative Fiction]
SHORT STORY
Dazed and Confused - 3/2/25 [Literary Fiction]
Necessities - 3/4/25 [Horror]
SHORT SERIAL
The Legacy [Pt. 9] - 3/2/25 [Horror]
SERIAL
Warp & Woof [Ch. 3] - 3/3/25 [Science Fiction]
Mud, and a mission [Ch. 16] - 3/4/25 [Fantasy]
No Rules Required Serial [Ch. 17] - 3/6/25 [Romance]
Dinosaurs and Hermit Crabs - 3/7/25 [Science Fiction]
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HONORABLE MENTIONS
An Unexpected Encounter [The Witch's Apprentice, Ch. 23] - 3/5/25 [Fantasy]
Calkore - 3/5/25 [Fantasy]
Heads for Sale - 3/5/25 [Horror]
Love Has the Power - 3/7/25 [Literary Fiction]
Gorgeous Beauty “Saloon” - 3/7/25 [Literary Fiction]
TiF TEAM MEMBERS
Sewer Rat - 3/7/25 [Fantasy]
THE WEIGHT OF SURVIVAL - 3/6/25 [Free Verse]
The Send Us Your Fiction Database is a comprehensive list of all stories recommended each week! Use it to find even more fiction to read!
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.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:
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:
If you are able to donate towards raising the bar on paying for this rebrand, please consider a one-time donation today:
—
, Editor-in-Chief 😈
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