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
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
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 […]
MASK – #flashfictionmagic
MASK – #flashfictionmagic “Why are you here again?” Sweta spun at the low, gray-sounding voice. Lucas leaned against the doorway to the mask exhibit, hands slung into pockets, eyelids half closed. She turned back to the jade and burnished gold of the masks. The evening light cast weird shadows from the windows on either side […]
THE COTTAGE – #flashfictionmagic
THE COTTAGE – #flashfictionmagic 🍄🍄🍄 Lilian and Margot were camping yet again in Deepwillow Forest when they found the cottage. Lilian stood still as the tree beside her, dreams of the future tossing the edges of her like the wind tossed the tree’s leaves. “Is that—“ Margot’s twisted foot tripped on a root and she […]
