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Our November 6, 2021 issue is out this week. Here, Fiction Ed Lucy takes a look at the stories, series and serials you'll find inside.

Alan looks at recurring story flaws found in "Friend" fiction, and what writers can do to avoid these pitfalls.

Fiction Sneak Peek: May 8, 2021 Issue By Short stories Our opening story this week is “Dear Diary”. Both Rosie’s children have flown the nest, and while decluttering, she finds herself in the attic for the first time in years. While she’s up there, she finds her teenage diary, and remembers the boy she’d been besotted with, 40 years ago. Marie Penman’s short story has a beautiful illustration by Kirk Houston. An onion changes a woman’s life infinitely for the better in Fiona Thomson’s moving short story, “The Layers Of Life”, illustrated by Kirk Houston. Sally wonders i...

Fiction Sneak Peek: March 20, 2021 Issue By Short stories “True To Life”. A TV Drama gets Willie thinking about the sorts of conversations he has with his wife, Andrea. Are they really only all about humdrum aspects of their life together? Kirk Houston is the illustrator. Maureen and Jean are due to get their vaccines any day. So why is Jean acting so strangely? Find out in Eirin Thompson’s “What The Doctor Ordered”. With an illustration by Ruth Blair. Engineer, Mario, is secretly in love with a violinist who lives in his building. His shyness prevents him from asking her out – b...

Fiction Sneak Peek: February 13, 2021 Issue By th February. “A Night To Remember”, with a lovely illustration by Ruth Blair (above). It’s 1880, and Gertrude is accompanying her daughter, Viola, to a Valentine’s ball, where Viola hopes to receive a proposal. But someone from Gertrude’s past is also there, and he was the love of her life . . . A couple who met at a support group for the recently widowed are getting ready for a fresh start — and it involves flat-pack furniture! Alison Wassell’s uplifting short story, “Build Me Up”, is accompanied by an illustration from the S...