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
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 […]
A POND IN THE WOODS – #flashfictionmagic
#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 […]