Red Writing Hood: No Way Out
I could never have imagined that it could ever happen to me. I was a good girl, raised to uphold Christian values, to think before I acted, and that I am ultimately responsible for my own actions...
View ArticleRed Writing Hood: Cheated
"I don't care if you don't want me here. He is my father, and I'm staying to take care of him tonight. You can't make me leave." Blair hissed at Hanna. "Why don't you take the night off instead?"...
View ArticleUnbelievable Sale! Must See to Believe!
FOR SALE!!! EVERYTHING MUST GO!!!Too many items to list, and new items listed daily. Check back often because there could be a new listing in an hour.ALL ITEMS ARE $1 unless noted differently.1....
View ArticleRemembeRED: Shiny and New
I had just gotten off the bus from school. I walked up to the front door of my first house and could feel the heat rising from it as the sun quarreled with its blackness on a daily basis. Just as I...
View ArticleThe Crooner
Her eyes search for the DJ in the smoke filled room. She needs to keep her eye on him between songs in case he calls her name. The music in the club vibrates throughout her body. She knows that even...
View ArticleThe {Not So} Wicked Neighbor Witch
She collected trinkets like most old ladies collected cats. Big, small, round, tall. They were spread all around her apartment from one end of her outside space in the cornflower blue single story...
View ArticleReign of Fire
This is a scene from my fantasy novel, The Unlikely Hero. The regular cast is not in this scene, but it tells the story of the creation of the Essedessel Tree, the willow tree River and co find in the...
View ArticleTake a Bow: The Show Must Go On
With the map spread out useless on the seat beside her, she feels stressed by the road work taking place along the small country highway. She's never traveled this way before, but the man at the...
View ArticleMonster No More
I don't remember exactly when it happened anymore. Memories of my childhood come in spurts and pieces, little instances of time here and there that have no meaning alone, yet all the meaning in the...
View ArticleTake A Bow: Don's Donut Shoppe
Every afternoon, he walked in the door of Don's Donut Shoppe. He was so punctual you could set your watch by him. He almost always wore a smile, the wide toothy smile of a man who has faced dragons...
View ArticleThe Good Samaritan
"A light never sees the shadow it leaves..." ~Anonymous Hope. That was the first word that came to mind every time she looked at the plaque on her wall. She had spent so much of her life doing...
View ArticleJesus Loves the {Dirt} Devil
As much as I hated being away from my mother, I loved my kindergarten with the same intensity. There was nothing like leaving the nostalgic embrace of my mother and turning around to see the...
View ArticleThe Romance that Wasn't
"The babysitter is here. Are you ready to go?" "Give me just one more minute, honey. I just need to put on a couple of finishing touches to my makeup and I'll be ready to go." His sigh started at his...
View ArticleWeathered: The Resurrection
I'm not quite sure where this story falls in line with the other Weathered scenes chronologically, other than it is not in the beginning. I have not written more than 13,000 words in chronological...
View ArticleWriting Workshop: Always & Forever
Always & Foreverin bedsnuggled closein your embracein your warmth.in your hand in your strength on your mind in your heart.My favorite place to be.quiet confidencewings that flycreativity set...
View ArticleWeathered: Waiting
Last Friday, I left Regina sitting in a pizzeria. Today I pick it up right where I left her.~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ She sat back on the bench, prepared for a long evening of waiting. Her fingers...
View ArticleSpring Into My World
Spring is...Lavender breezes born on the windHelicopters all over the drivewaySplashes of pinks, purples, and yellowNewborn limbs stretching over frolicking waters.Spring is...Eggs painted in pretty...
View ArticleCinderella Syndrome
And they lived happily ever after. The words stared up at her from the page. She blinked. Red illumination from the digital clock near her desk revealed it was just past midnight. Her back...
View ArticleThe Unlikely Hero: Corruption
This is another piece from The Unlikely Hero, the fantasy novel I wrote during NaNo. It has been edited for clarity to those of you reading for the first time (I hope). ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~...
View ArticleSea and Salt
Tumbling, turning end over endBreath collapses with every bendHeart seizes with terror in a silent cryLife flashes before her little eyeCaught in a wave with no escapeKnives battering her tiny shapeA...
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