THE CLOUDS – #flashfictionmagic 🌫🌫🌫 They fell in the softest caress, a long muffled hiss, rising again like amorphous balls before settling in a wreath around her house. They crowded her windows, seeping inside with cold white fingers. She woke in the middle of this and thought all the rain in the world was falling at […]

RED ROSE – #flashfictionmagic 🥀🥀🥀 Bell had always thought the scent of a red rose looked like iniquity. The one she looked at now had a dozen silky petals unfolding like red bedsheets, its tiny cloud of fragrance curved and dark as blood along its edges. It lay at the edge of her flower stand, […]

JUNE MOON – #flashfictionmagic “Am I too late?” Emily startled at the breathless male voice at her shoulder. Under the star studded sky, he was nearly invisible in a dark shirt. His eyes looked like moons themselves as he surveyed the small crowd scattered over the hill. The June Moon hung low and shimmering, almost […]

#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 […]