Tag: Fiction on the Web

I’ve decided to rank and review the stories published by Fiction on the Web soon. I’ll start with January 2025. As you might already know, FOTW publishes two stories per week, which means we get eight to ten stories to read monthly.

All stories on FOTW are excellent, as they’ve been reviewed by a team of professionals. That said, I find some of them more intriguing and noteworthy. That’s why I’d like to rank the three best stories here on my blog.

But how am I going to rank the stories, knowing that all of them are well-written? Okay, this is not going to be an easy task for me to do. I’m going to read all the stories published in January in one sitting and then ask myself a simple question: Which stories didn’t I find that absorbing? I’ll eliminate those first. Then, I’ll read the ones I liked once more and choose the three top stories that I enjoyed reading the most. Finally, I’ll read the three selected stories for the third time to make my final decision. Overall, it’ll take me three days to complete the process.

Since I’ve created Noteworthy.IR to improve my English reading and writing skills, I believe this fun reading task can help me sharpen my knowledge and abilities. I just hope I’ll make fair judgments and evaluations in the end. The ultimate goal is to have a good time, though. 🤓

Fiction on the Web is undoubtedly my favorite literary journal on the web. Currently, Mr. Charlie Fish and his professional team of readers/editors publish two stories per week on Mondays and Fridays. In total, we get eight to ten new stories monthly from around the world. Most stories published by Fiction on the Web take only twenty to thirty minutes of our time to read. From time to time, we get some longer pieces on this journal.

The main genres you can expect to read at Fiction on the Web are comedy, horror, fantasy, sci-fi, and drama. FOTW has published works by authors from all continents, as far as I know and remember. I’ve just read a few stories by Indian, Israeli, and Latin American story writers.

Your story must be very well-written to be published by FOTW. They publish less than ten stories a month, but their submission inbox is overflowing. They receive a significant number of stories written by skilled writers every month. Being published by Charlie Fish’s journal is a true honor.

I wish Mr. Fish would publish more love and comedy short stories at Fiction on the Web. I’ll soon write more (actually, a lot more) about my favorite pieces and authors that have been published by FOTW. Fortunately, Fiction on the Web has been live and active for a long time, so I have plenty of material to (re)read and scribble about.

I should say and emphasize that the main purpose of Noteworthy.IR is to publish short story reviews, and my number one journal to write about is, without a doubt, Fiction on the Web. Honestly, my short story analysis and criticism skills aren’t good and satisfactory enough yet, but I’ll do my best to write better reviews day by day. My priority and ultimate goal is to write simple but fun-to-read short reviews. I hope I’ll achieve that soon.