WHAT LIES BENEATH – #flashfictionmagic It was one of those houses that looks…stiff. New and expensive, like no one lived or loved in it yet. Margery wondered what the owners—who never seemed to be there—would think if she knocked on the door and offered to ruffle their house up a a bit. It was ridiculous, […]

A STARTING PLACE #flashfictionmagic The shoots rising from the bulbs were so strong, so green, the dirt rose tangled with them. She stared at them in mid January, wondering how such slow growth could lift the very earth. The snow still lay in swaths, falling and mounting and receding again. When she stepped inside the […]

SNOWBOUND – #flashfictionmagic The ropes of snow cut into my bare forearms, pinning them to my sides. “Grila, you must let go!” The snow goddess stood like a pillar of fury at the mouth of her cave, face chiseled from dark ice, eyes blue frozen ocean. Was it only yesterday she’d laid soft fingers of […]

CANDY CANES & THINGS – #flashfictionmagic The bell above the door to Sweet Treats: Antiques you can Eat jangled primly, bringing a wave of strong peppermint. Juliana Cane shoved aside her messy bangs and peered over her gold rimmed glasses and around the shelf of ancient petit fours she was dusting. Hidden by the iron […]