The Thricely Odd Troll
Alcea was the Exemplar elected from the canton of Ennecy, and she was a troll. But she was an odd troll. She did not contract her disease reaching greedily for power – the conventional route of an...
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With Mother’s Day approaching, this piece of flash fiction seems appropriate. * * * Mother: Kaitlin? Mother: Kaitlin? Daughter: I don’t want to talk about it. Genevieve! Mother: Mm. I think it’s good...
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Read-Only Beauty started as an assignment in a writing workshop on how to develop ideas for stories. I wrote a story opening inspired by three words chosen at random from a dictionary:...
View ArticleRibbon of Earth’s Tears
Long he slept. Centuries and millennia of years he slumbered. The age of creation had demanded hard labor, and he had given freely of himself, cooling the lands made molten by his sister Gaia,...
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