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Flash Friday # 32: Teaching Justice

Ice pelted the window, a harbinger of worse weather to come. Eneas glanced up from the old-fashioned desk and stared at the growing storm, amazed at how fast the weather had changed. He'd forgotten that aspect of the winter at home. What surprised him more was the surge of childish joy the howl of the wind brought. He needed to get the work done and get home.


Eneas had returned to

All Writers Welcome Here

I saw some really troubling things said about writing on Twitter recently(wow, what a shock)and while I won't address each situation, I will say there was such a tone of elitist entitlement in the conversations (besides contradictions just to disagree with someone else) that I had to go over everything several times just to try and figure out what might be real and what might be nothing

Flash Friday # 31 -- By the Sea

By the Sea





Each morning I swim to the edge of the sea and watch the ruins. I don't know why the compulsion brings me here, so far from my own people. It is a curse, I'm sure. Some have started to shun me, saying I am reverting, and will have no place among them. I don't believe I'll change. I love the sea and the endless shoals. I love my world and my freedom. But I still come

Talking about critique groups

(Also posted on LibraryThing)



Here is one big, important part that authors have to
remember about posting material for crique: 
If you are still pursuing a traditional publication path, do no put your
stories up on open sites.  This is
considered using the first publication rights by many mainstream magazine and
book publishers. 


If the stories are not open to just anyone who happens

Flash Friday # 20: The Ride Home

 

The Ride Home
    

    The horse plodded through red dust, a dozen sheep bleating in protest as I herded them down the hillside to the lowland grass. I never knew -- no one did -- what drove crazy sheep to climb the steep hills upward to where the air was too thin.


But up I had gone, me and the horse, to find the crazy animals. Sheep at least tended to stand together and I found them

The First: Merry Go Round Blog Tour #19

 

 





I wrote a story when I was about five or six about a young witch and her cat. I drew pictures and wove ribbon to tie it all together in a book, though for some reason I did the binding on the wrong side though I couldn't figure out what was wrong. (Dyslexic much?) My mother kept the book until she died and my father threw it away. I wish I still had that one.



I probably wrote

Whom should you listen to?

 

 


 




Hello you poor, misguided and
uneducated writing masses. I'm Big Book Author, and I'm here to tell you
exactly what you need to do to become . . . well not me, because no one will
ever be as good at this as I am. But I am going to impart some of my wide,
wonderful knowledge to you, though none of you are deserving of my time. I'm just
that kind of person. What do you mean you've

Flash Friday # 29: The Good Fight

 

The Good Fight


     Dela paused at the edge of a circle of transfuse light spreading downward from an old-fashioned street lamp a few feet from the door of the church. Beneath the light, Angelo sat on a wooden chair turned around so he could lean casually against the back, his hands folded on the upper edge, his wings draped casually across his back and sides. Lines of fog spread close

Flash Friday # 28 -- The Meeting

 

(I am posting this early because the end of the month is always crazed for me!)

 

 

    The mouse taunted him, running back and forth on the edge of the porch where Fluffy stretched out in the sunlight, watching through slitted eyes.


Back and forth, back and forth; he could take it no longer. Ears flattened, tail stopped twitching and his muscles tightened. He was ready -- but as he

Flash Friday # 27 -- Lost

McFaeland Detective Agency: Lost

By

Lazette Gifford

(A note about this story:


The main character in Lost is Skye Emerald McFaeland who is the MC in two novels: Mirrors and Reflections. The first of these novels will be out this year, and I plan to preview it here much as I did Paid in Gold and Blood. These are urban fantasy stories, but in this case, the magic is not very obvious.)