#flashfictionmagic -A POND IN THE WOODS Part two: Lise bit down on a squeal of pain as Jack’s boot heel came down on her toes. “Get off,” she hissed. “What?” She shoved and he lurched forward, nearly tumbling out into the open. He braced one hand on the damp, mossy boulder they hid behind and glared […]
A COMMITMENT – #flashfictionmagic
#flashfictionmagic – A COMMITMENT Lise slipped around the gnarled oak, its bark ragged beneath her raw fingers. A mossy hollow lay within the copse of ancient trees. Why was he not here? Had he forgotten his whispered promise so soon? She brushed a smudge of dirt from her apron—she wanted to take it off, but there […]
THE AWAKENING – #flashfictionmagic
THE AWAKENING – #flashfictionmagic “Come with me. I know a place you will be safe.” Her fingers curled around his, cool and hard and perfect. He didn’t resist as she tugged him behind his cottage and up the steep, tree-gnarled hill. “My wife—she won’t know where I am,” he muttered. Leaves and trunks already hid […]
ELEMENTS – #flashfictionmagic
ELEMENTS – #flashfictionmagic Arius hunched over the tiny covered lantern. The wind of Bellower’s Gap made his eyes water, tasting the exposed crevice at the back of his neck. “All right, Drio?” he shouted without turning. The narrow rock walls of the Gap’s end made leaning lines in the near distance. From behind, his son […]
APRIL SHOWERS BRING…- #flashfictionmagic
#flashfictionmagic – APRIL SHOWERS BRING… The grey downpour crept in at the edges of my vision, conjuring shapes that vanished when I looked at them directly. I stood at the east facing window of the house library, my fingers fanned against the windowsill as if in thought. He couldn’t see my white knuckles. “Come back […]
