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Flash Friday #38: My Mistake

(This is a drabble -- 100 words -- and will only make sense to some of the chat people at FM.  But it was fun to write!)




 

 


DC stepped into the book, dismayed by line of characters
doing unaccountably odd things.  She
tried to find her people in this mass of insanity. 


Someone sprang by on a Pogo Stick.  "I'm late!  I'm late!"


She snagged him. 
"You aren't a rabbit!  This isn't
a

Flash Friday # 37: The Real Reason Technology and Magic don't Mix

Wizard Elson had begun creating the spell 111 years and 111 days before. The spell was 111,111 lines long, each meticulously memorized because he dared not put something so potent down in script, even in small pieces.




Elson knew the power of one, and he used the power to his best advantage, building and building his spell and preparing to imbue the carefully crafted words with every bit

Flash Friday # 36: One Demand Too Many

One Demand Too Many





 





By Lazette Gifford





 





(This story was published in a slightly longer form several
years ago.)









 





"I said never come back." The Sorceress looked
up, a feathered quill twitching back and forth in her hand like the tail of an
unhappy cat. "I didn't think even you people were this stupid."





 





Four kings and three queens, a

Flash Friday # 35: Once Upon A Time (Drabble)

     Once upon a time a little village nestled close to the mountains in the magical land of Patlin. The humans lived in peace with their giant neighbors and everyone enjoyed life ... except for Carl. He grew up boasting he would be better than all the others. He waved his sword at imaginary enemies and claimed he would be famous and not mundane like the rest of them.



By the time he was

Flash Friday # 34: Our Lady of the Woods

By the time the guy with the keg of beer arrived, Danny knew he didn't want to be here with a group of hostile football players heading for a drunken brawl. Unfortunately, he'd hitched a ride with Barry and short of walking back to town he was pretty much stuck.


This fun would go on for hours and then his friends would be too drunk to drive home. He thought about taking a car, but they'd

Flash Friday # 33: Our Lady of the Woods

By the time the guy with the keg of beer arrived, Danny knew he didn't want to be here with a group of hostile football players heading for a drunken brawl. Unfortunately, he'd hitched a ride with Barry and short of walking back to town he was pretty much stuck.


This fun would go on for hours and then his friends would be too drunk to drive home. He thought about taking a car, but they'd

Writer's Block? Merry Go Round Blog Tour #20

I am going to say something that will annoy a lot of people.


I have never had Writer's Block.


I understand the concept behind it, but there are two huge factors that have allowed me to avoid this problem. The first is that I have always turned to writing to escape real-world pressures. How does this make a difference? Many people fall into the pit of writer's block when bad things

There is more to life than writing

         It's true. Even for me, there is more to life than writing.



There's also photography!



Russ bought me a lovely Canon EOS T4i Digital SLR camera for my birthday, with two lenses. I have not had an SLR camera since I was still shooting film back in the dark ages (late 1990s). It's going to take me a while to get used to the feel again, but I'll be working at it. This takes me

Flash Friday # 33 -- The Dark and the Light

 

There in the shadows, look quickly and you'll see them.


Don't shiver, don't look away. Not everything of the dark is your enemy. There are Guardians in the late of night, those who hold back the tide of evil, who stand between humanity and the abyss. They guard against man's destruction, allies that we cannot see, except that we look long into the dark and not fear it.


Let me tell

What to do, what to do . . . .

I have an odd problem and one I don't think I've seen addressed in the past.


Most of this comes from the way in which I write. I start with very fast first drafts. Once completed, I put the first draft aside and work on something else before I come back to edit. This means I will often have a lot of first drafts lined up because I edit far slower and I work on multiple projects, a