Ahem!

It’s hard to know who reads this and how much attention they pay. My ISP says I’m getting over 200 unique visitors a day from actual web browsers (as opposed to robots who account for about the same number of hits again) - more when I actually post something! Is that good/bad/indifferent? I have no idea. But it’s far more than I imagined so, since I haven’t told my mum I’m doing this, there must be quite a few real people passing through.

And I realised I hadn’t done a proper round up on here of my fellow Friday flashers, so that any of my “loyal readers” (heh!) who aren’t au fait with the excellent work being done elsewhere can check it out.

First up: Paul Raven at Velcro City Tourist Board who, this week brings us Diplomacy. Proving that when it comes to just talking to each other men are from Mars err… no… Earth and aliens are from, well, somewhere else, obviously.

Then, there’s Shaun C Green, whoss title Softly, Softly, Catchee Monkey nearly says it all - although of course it doesn’t otherwise there’d be no point in reading the story.

We shuffle next to the Gareth L Powell’s neatly told, and powerful, Snowball. Gareth started all this so if you don’t like it you can blame him.

From there we skip lightly to the home of Gareth D Jones who offers you this apocalyptic take on a familiar story in The Last Adam.

Finally, but by no means least, Neil Benyon gets all apocalyptic on your arse too with a chatroom conversation that takes a nasty twist in SCL69. If I can manage to say this without sounding patronising, Neil’s making some great progress each week, his stories keep getting better and better.

So there you go, a full round up of the other known Friday flashers (perhaps I should rethink that sobriquet) - go, read my multitudinous minions, and enjoy.

Next week, I promise, magazine deadlines all met, this blog will feature some real content.