TiF Weekly, Live! #12

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COMIC/CARTOON

THE UNBELIEVABLE RUTH #4 - 3/21/25 [Science Fiction]
Mark Ricketts and Shane White of YUCK! Travel Magazine

POETRY

In a Sentimental Mood (Mama with Me in the NICU) - 3/17/25 [Free Verse]

Ricardo José Romeu

of Analog Stories

Breathe With Me - 3/2025 [Free Verse]

Matt Gerrity

of Bluebird Fiction

MICRO/FLASH FICTION

Sweetness and Memory - 3/21/25 [Literary Fiction]

Camille

of Camille

SHORT STORY

The Fate of The Elmsleys - 3/19/25 [Mystery]

Jim Minns

of Reality Dispatch

There's a Mouse in My Bed - 3/18/25 [Horror]

Annieguile Bentulan

of Through Words Be Guiled: A Phantom Literary Press™

A Gentle Rain - 3/15/25 [Horror]

J.J. Walker

of After Dusk

Leaving; Maybe - 3/20/25 [Speculative Fiction]

Terry A. Fries

of Thin Air Fiction

Unalive On Air - 3/21/25 [Science Fiction]

M.P. Fitzgerald

of Graphomania with M.P. Fitzgerald

The Missing Sleeve - 3/16/25 [Literary Fiction]

Zackary San Martin

of The Literary Ledger

SERIAL

The Drill (Part 2) [The Amazing Adventures of Tortoise & Gecko, Ep. 12] - 3/19/25 [Fantasy]

Chris Lynch

of The Amazing Adventures of Tortoise & Gecko

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Disco-Ball Converse - 3/19/25 [Speculative Fiction]

A. R. Eldridge

of The Eldridge Horror [Short Story]

The Department of Life and Death - 3/20/25 [Speculative Fiction]

Suswati Basu

of Suswati's Stories [Short Story]

Venom - 3/19/25 [Free Verse]

Rowan Macfie

of Dawn of Conquerors [Poetry]

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What You Missed, Live! on TiF…

This week I want to introduce the Top in Fiction YouTube Channel and Podcast. As of today you will see some of the Weekly episodes are there. In the “show notes” I have added links to the featured stories. This will be a new thing that gets uploaded to YouTube every week now. I aim to get the Live up by end of day on Mondays.

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All of the medallions are updated now for 2025. I know I promised weeks 4 & 5 would be done a while ago. Well, they are now updated. So, if you were featured anytime in the first 6 weeks and have the old medallion, please go back to the week where you were featured and re-download your medallion which should be updated to show the new logo.

The very first TiF Sociable is happening on Friday, March 28th! Info on time and who will be coming on to read a piece of their work will be officially announced soon. This is our first attempt at something like this but if it goes well, we hope to host more in the future! So, mark your calendars and prepare for a day of listening as storytellers read their work aloud to you…

Reminder that in two weeks, on April 2nd,

Shane Bzdok

and I will be discussing our love of book design (mostly interior) as well as dissecting The Midnight Vault.

Also, as a part of our TiF Disruption series, we will be hosting a special discussion with

Claudia Befu

and

Julie Gabrielli

as they take on Earth Day with their writing event. Join us as they discuss the submissions and more.

Update on paying for TiF Rebrand:

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Erica Drayton

, Editor-in-Chief 😈

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