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A New Podcast

No Drabble Wednesday today, because I’ve been a busy little bee these past few days getting the new Shadows and Ink podcast ready for Crystal Lake Entertainment. I’ll be hosting a 30-minute audio podcast interviewing authors and talking horror, and we will have true crime segments as well, hosted by Gert Hanekom and Karen van... Continue Reading →

Drabble Wednesday: Tea Party

A quirky set of three drabbles today, washed down with some tea… Enjoy. A Tea Break She relished the smooth feel of the warm soapy water as she washed the teacups, taking care not to clink the delicate china.A chip would never do. Or cracks.Too many things had been broken already. Especially today. She glanced... Continue Reading →

Drabble Wednesday: Time for a New Year

Three time related drabbles to kick off the new year. Enjoy. Tick of Time Where does time go, when it runs down, when the seconds tick off and fly out of your reaching grasp? Does it vanish, engulfed by entropy or relativity? Or will you find particles of it at the end of the universe,... Continue Reading →

Drabble Wednesday: Haunting Holidays.

Three more stories, two darker tales and a little holiday wish. Enjoy. The Gentleman A shadow on the street, surrounded by poor and lonely souls, he stares up at the castle on the hill. A bitter place, all metal and stone, and spiralling towers, a looming monstrosity of iron-fisted rule. It can be seen from... Continue Reading →

Drabble Wednesday: Lilac Butterflies

Another three stories today. Butterfly Glass She held gossamer dreams of meadow grass and violets, of dancing butterflies past a window pane smeared with tiny fingerprints. Beating hopes of giggles and tousled hair, of long, exploratory walks, of glee and wonder and chasing ephemera. Wishes cast to the wind to see paper boats sailing down... Continue Reading →

Drabble Wednesday: In the Night

Some nighttime musings for you this week. Fallen Angels Within clouds we walk the night, supercilious gossamer shifting in the wind. A laugh, a tear, and ache to fly beyond the stars, before we fall again to earth in fire, wings burning, our screams unheard. We died for our sins, not yours, in a blaze... Continue Reading →

Drabble Wednesday, Plus One

I have two drabbles today, plus a slighter longer story. Enjoy. Leaking Drip, drip, drip. Oh, how I hated that sound. No matter what, that tap would trickle its tiny drops, down, down, down. No matter what. Plumbers came, plumbers went, but it never got fixed. My fault really.A little jazz, a little wine, and... Continue Reading →

My poem for Remembrance Day

The annual poem to honour the fallen. Wisps of Smoke In the aftermath, the air swirlsin an acrid scent,the residue of warBodies, row on row,hail the costhate never sees Babies with bombschildren with gunsConflict never solvedYet, the violence, deathrages on. © Copyright 2023 A. F. Stewart

Drabble Wednesday: Haunts

Here are some post Halloween drabbles to sustain the darkness a little while longer… Hunted Never take the deer from the North Woods.Everyone knew, everyone but the rich fool who built his manor above the village. To look down, to lord it over the villagers. But he paid his bills on time, was generous with... Continue Reading →

Launch Day!

It’s launch day for Fairy Tales and Nightmares. The second collection a dark tales in the Entangled Nightmares series officially releases today with ebook and paperback. Check it out. Fairy Tales and Nightmares Sometimes happily ever after just means surviving… Nine fairy tales reimagined within the worlds of horror, history and mythology. What if the... Continue Reading →