Every week Rochelle Wisoff-Fields leads a bevy of writers on a merry trail. She posts a picture for our inspiration and challenges us to expand upon it with only 100 words. I, usually, take a day or so to settle on an idea. Then I start writing. The first draft is always much too long, […]
Reading to Write
My Path to Becoming an Author
Category: Flash Fiction
The raven-haired woman shivered inside her cloak and gazed at the house she had never expected to enter again. She set her jaw in resignation and pushed. The banshee squeal of the hinges sent chills all the way down to the toes of her hiking boots. She straightened the bundle strapped to her chest, “Come […]
Aethelstan eased the green door open and slid inside. Light streamed over his shoulder and slanted across a shelf of glass bottles that glowed softly with amber, jade, and indigo liquids. There was no sign of Magdalena. Nothing was broken or overturned. Everything was put away neatly, but covered with a layer of dust. It appeared the […]