Archive: My Tippity Top Stories
An idea I TOTALLY didn't steal from Matthew Fromm, honestly
Here is a modest catalog of my personal favorites, top stories, official and unofficial award winners listed by category and date of publication. I totally didn't steal this idea from Matthew Fromm and L.C. Schafer. I have no idea what you're talking about whatsoever. None.
This list will be updated monthly.
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Let's start with my highest read pieces and some personal recommendations:
Top Five Highest Reads To-Date
- A Novice Gambit
- Beneath
- Arboreal Fire
- A Midnight Dance in the Mushroom Ring
- A White Mountains Mystery: The Cabin - Chapter 1
Top Five Personal Short Fiction Favorites
- A Good Citizen
- The Haunt: A Midsummer Nightmare
- Just Desserts: A Dinner to Die For
- Blackrot: A Twisted Fairytale
- Fantasy Shorts: The Man of Glass
Top Five Personal Poetic Favorites
- A Midnight Dance in the Mushroom Ring
- Morning Delirium
- Green Moss on Gray Old Stones
- Oh, Thief of Sleep!
- Intrusive Thoughts
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And now for the archive of Top Stories and Awards:
Top Stories
June 2023
A Midnight Dance in the Mushroom Ring
Writer's Block: An All New Formula
July 2023
August 2023
September 2023
A White Mountains Mystery: The Cabin - Chapter 1
October 2023
April 2024
June 2024
The Light of the Solstice: A Fantastical Short
August 2024
September 2024
The Thing Behind the Fourth Wall
October 2024
January 2025
Official Vocal Contest Winners
Runners Up
Catuwalos: A 'Past Life' in Iron Age Yorkshire
A Most Fitting Wardrobe, My Liege
Unofficial Contest Winners/Placements
A Little Door to Nowhere: a Microfiction (Mike Singleton Dollar Challenge)
The Mortal Masquerade: A Microfiction (Mother Combs Campfire Challenge)
Fantasy Shorts: The Mage and the Yeoman (Matthew Fromm High Fantasy Challenge)
Blackrot: a Twisted Fairytale (Belle A Setting that Eats)
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About the Creator
A Midnight Dance in the Mushroom Ring - Exclusive Edition
Welcome to my first poetry exclusive article! This poem, 'A Midnight Dance in the Mushroom Ring', was my second top story ever. It was never for a challenge or anything, it just came to me one night when I was just pleasure reading some old Welsh and Scottish fairy stories. Not the cutesy 'Tinker Bell' ones, but the old ones, the ones that often keep children up at night with all manner of nightmare: changelings, vengeful spirits, and the strange remote places that the fair folk call home and other such eldritch fare. I think those are the best poems, the ones that just come to you without warning and beg you to write them despite the fact that the clock says it's just shy of 2 AM.
By Ian ReadExclusive • about a year ago
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By Leo Johnson5 days ago in Writers
Violence Begets
"Any last words, cowboy?" "None you'd understand, sodbuster." "Funny. That's Marshall Sodbuster to you. But I meant some last nugget that would help us in the adjudication of the myriad offenses counted against you and your gang. I wasn't asking for penitence."
By Adam Diehl5 days ago in Fiction
Comments (4)
Love this - I'll be checking these out in my lunch breaks :D might steal this idea Fromm you both to give a boost to my faves!
Pretty sure he stole it Fromm me 🤣 I'm so happy to see these, I hope we get a tab for it soon 😁
I clearly need to catch-up on a lot. Read a lot of Mr Read. Well done on collating all this and totally not stealing from Fromm. Completely unique idea, Ian! It reminds me I need to do this sorta thing too.
I appreciate the shout out! But added a bunch of these to my ever growing ready queue