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Manly book launch It’s the sound of water that reminds me where I am. There are bridges and skinny little … More Author Interview: Elizabeth Foster →

About the book Friendship will always come first. There’s only one way out from rock bottom and that’s up, and … More Review: A Forgiven Friend by by Sue Featherstone and Susan Pape →

PHOTO PROMPT © J Hardy Carroll It’s been so long since I got back from my interplanetary travels, I hardly … More Memories fade, reputation lasts (Friday Fictioneers) →

About the Book: It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed … More Review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman →

PHOTO PROMPT © Ronda Del Boccio Casting a professional eye over the items left behind on the kitchen sink didn’t … More I’ll find you (Friday Fictioneers) →

PHOTO PROMPT © Fatima Fakier Deria “What are you reading?” “It’s a book, Dad.” “Earth book?” “Ah… yes, Dad.” “Give it … More A sci-fi secret (Friday Fictioneers) →

There is a light an electronic screen gives off that we cannot see. It’s been designed that way. I only … More Run →

PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields It is said angels walk among us. What I don’t think they realize is that … More What if… (Friday Fictioneers) →

PHOTO PROMPT © Ted Strutz I was not going to open it. His passing was still a raw festering wound … More Unwanted (Friday Fictioneers) →

PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson The panicked note she’d left the night she died had faded now. From the sun, … More One who sees all (Friday Fictioneers) →

About the Book: A Terrifying Power. A Horrifying Curse. Lucy Piper lives a lonely existence on the precipice between life … More Review: Lucid by Kristy Fairlamb →

PHOTO PROMPT © CEAyr She needed some time for herself. It was the same old thing. Again and again told to … More Hidden depths (Friday Fictioneers) →

PHOTO PROMPT © Penny Gadd A shuddering stretch, trembling, inching slowly down. Down was wrong. Should be up. Up is where … More What means life? (Friday Fictioneers) →

PHOTO PROMPT © Linda Kreger  Follow the line, follow the leader, keep moving, don’t stop… To stop moving, to stop changing, … More Don’t stop (Friday Fictioneers) →

PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson The invitation was fraught… “Family reunion” Who thought that would be a good idea? From Jonny … More RSVP (Friday Fictioneers) →

PHOTO PROMPT © Jan Wayne Fields “Oh jeez!” “John, what have you DONE?” “Hun, its not what you think… you … More Really, John? (Friday Fictioneers) →

PHOTO PROMPT © Randy Mazie “No trespassing. It was a sign of the era. You would have seen it everywhere … More What has been lost (Friday Fictioneers) →

Hi All My latest short story has gone live on the antisf.com website read it now https://antisf.com/the-stories/skyfire

PHOTO PROMPT © Sandra Crook They said the train was a myth and that once you board, you never return. Hogwash. … More Adventure seekers (Friday Fictioneers) →

PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot Turn a blind eye. It’s an interesting phrase because it implies full consent. You are … More Don’t look (Friday Fictioneers) →

PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson The overlords didn’t care for it. The sculpture was dedicated to their birth. The overlords … More Purpose is life (Friday Fictioneers) →

About the book: Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn … More Review: This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar; Max Gladstone →

PHOTO PROMPT © Ted Strutz “Wasn’t he supposed to meet us here?” “I thought so.” She peered around at the … More Oh what a night (Friday Fictioneers) →

PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields Waiting. It had to be a version of hell. Or maybe purgatory. Waiting… delays… public … More Of our own creation (Friday Fictioneers) →