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| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 49 | Founded | 8 months ago | Last Issue | 9 days ago |
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FicStack: Behind the Story #3
Tell us about yourself! Where are you from? What do you do for fun? What might people be surprised to learn about you?
I’m a poet and storyteller with a soft spot for folklore, fairies and the magic that slips into the mundane every...
FicStack: Behind the Story #2
"I write from the places I'm most reluctant to examine myself."
That's how Abhishek Banerjee describes his process, and it shows. His fiction sits in the uncomfortable gap between what people feel and what they're willing to name.
We're...
Behind the Story
Ellis Elms doesn’t write fiction. He designs psychological traps and frames them as stories. What follows is a rare glimpse into how one of FicStack’s most quietly unsettling voices thinks about craft, complicity and the reader who never...
A Pause
FicStack curation posts started in October 2025, and have been produced weekly up until 3 days ago. We split the curators into two teams, each working a week on, a week off, to find gems to share with you all.
This entire project has been...
FicStack Curation #23
Photo by Lysander Yuen on Unsplash
We have seven pieces this week, and no two are cut from the same cloth. Wendy’s discovered a couple of pieces shaped by Prompt Response Lives - a community where people show up and create in real time, a...
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Subscribers, engagement, traffic and sponsorship for FicStack.
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Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
I write stories that ask what it means to be human in a world of dreaming machines and fractured memory. Expect symbolism, tension, and the occasional cat critique. This Substack is my creative lab, where fiction meets philosophy and fur.
I'm a Ghanaian storyteller and this is Good Company
I write stories that reach the soul and stay there a little longer. \ud83d\udcec Midnight Letters — fiction & essays
Kia ora, I’m Wendy. I write fiction about midlife mayhem, strange intuition, messy families, and the quiet weirdness tucked into everyday life. Sass & Sage is part story lab, part rage journal, and part soft place to land when the world gets loud.
Playful, melancholy, raucous, and dark. Half critter, half Zarathustra, but lots of people in-between.
(she/her) \ud83c\udfc5Award-winning SFFH Author | Acquiring Editor @fiyahlitmag | First Reader @othersidespec | MWC '26 | Pre-order DARK STAR \ud83d\udc47\ud83c\udffe\ud83d\udc47\ud83c\udffe
40-something bog witch. No clue what I'm doing 100% of the time. I write things. Juggling anxiety, depression, & perimenopause is fun!
I am a thriller writer working on my third novel. When not writing, I do freelance editing. If you subscribe to my Substack, you can expect short stories and craft articles, published once a week on alternating Wednesdays.
⁺‧₊˚ ཐི⋆♱ Speculative Gothic Writer • English Literature Student • Word Witch • 28 Years Old • WIP: Vampire Western Novel ♱⋆ཋྀ ˚₊‧⁺
Screenwriter, author, producer, and podcaster crafting cinematic mythos where grief breathes fire and time folds in on truth. Creator of The Hollow Vale, The Journey. Co-writer of Sargasso and Embodied with Gary S. Mucklow.
The Author Wars \ud83c\udff3️\ud83c\udf08
If you've ever felt like something's off, you're not alone. This is a space where we question, explore and make sense of the world together.
2026 VCCS poet laureate | VPCC 2026 I Dream Poetry Laureate | Published in Give Us This Day by Drek, Death, and Doom | Cosmic Horror Author and Poet Located in Williamsburg, VA
I write UFiction. Uncomfortable Fiction, which turns the mirror around. You come for a story about AI, religion, or violence. You stay because it marked you. Because you realized it was always about YOU. Come for the story. Stay for the scar.
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