Each weekend we showcase the weekly short fiction offerings of our writers.

Some writers are inspired by the [Fiction Friday] prompt at Write Anything and others contribute to JM Strother’s #FridayFlash via Twitter.

We hope you take the time to enjoy the varied and entertaining array of stories on offer.

Stand Alone Shorts

Dan Powell’s “The Taste Of Youth”… Keep young and beautiful.

Tony Noland’s “Grow, garden, grow”… Pretty plants, behind a locked door.

Carrie Clevenger’s “Pale Horse”… An addict’s thought-process.

Laura Eno’s “Martians Don’t Eat Corn”.

Paul Servini’s “Close Encounters”.

Emma Newman’s “‘Her Fall”.

Jen Brubacher’s “Kid”.

Icy Sedgwick’s “Strictly No Digging” … in which advertising has some surprising effects!

J.M. Strother’s “Not a Christmas Miracle”. Why wait until Christmas to talk to the animals?

Jodi Cleghorn’s “Greenman Ridge”… the edge of technology and love.

Christopher Chartrand’s “Dark World.”

Serials

Emma Newman’s Split Worlds, “The Shopkeeper Returns”.

Carrie Clevenger’s Crooked Fang.

Jodi Cleghorn’s Dirk Hartog, “3 Welcome to the Blood Derby.”

From Captain Juan, Annie Evett’s “Tranquilitas Amini”… a part of the puzzle in Dante’s Stewardship.