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Drabble Wednesday: Holidays with Frankie and Joni

Frankie and Joni are back for a December holiday edition with some laughs and another… invasion? Read on to find out. Silly Santa “Frankie!” My shout rattled the nodes in the holo-projector and echoed off the vid room walls. “Get your butt in here...

Drabble Wednesday: Lost and Found

I have some drabbles for you, but first a quick update. NaNoWriMo is officially over for another year and I managed another win, so that means the first draft of Fairy Tales and Nightmares is complete. Now on to the drabbles. I have two...

Drabble Wednesday: Dark Rising

Welcome back to the land of darkness, with three more fantasy horror drabbles. The Call Vibrations drumming, drumming, rhythms singing through the air, pounding from the earth, through the roots to the sky. The heart is thumping, blood of life coursing from the darkest...

Drabble Wednesday: Space and Time

Back to Drabble Wednesday this week with three new stories. Watchmen Silence envelops the endless night in the lingering aftermath of the War.We stand on the hill under the starless sky, all the light of worlds beyond extinguished. Our air is smoke and ash,...

A Poem For Remembrance Day

This year’s poem is a bit different than what I usually post for this day. It’s not so much about the past and what we lost, but today’s soldier and their suffering. There is also an enlightening video discussion on the topic of PTSD...

Updates and Excerpt Wednesday

So yes, I missed Drabble Wednesday last week, and it’s MIA this week as well, but I’m in the middle of NaNoWriMo this month, working hard on getting my Fairy Tales and Nightmares story collection finished, and hopefully some work down on my Tales...

Halloween Excerpt

Here’s a peek at the rough draft of a story I’m working on. Enjoy. Shadow God of Necropolis Necropolis, the City of the Dead, cast a long shadow on the kingdom of Ashmyr. Its twisted spires rose towards the forever crimson sky, grey stone...

Drabble Wednesday: Three Tales for Halloween

Welcome again to Drabble Wednesday, this time for the spooky Halloween edition. Come join our host as he greets a guest and tells a story… Tale of Loss “Come in. Come in. Sit by the fire, warm yourself. Such horrid weather, and you look...

Drabble Wednesday: After Worldfall

Three more drabbles this week, and I’m thinking of expanding the idea into a new drabble series. I’d love your feedback on whether you’d like to see more of these stories. The Future World 3212 AW (After Worldfall) The Past Civilization Museum “Welcome, children,...

#OctoberFrights – Day 6: Fairy Tales and Nightmares

Today is our last day of October Frights and to close off the Hop, I’m sharing an excerpt from my WIP, Fairy Tales and Nightmares, where I’m putting a dark fantasy and horror spin on classic fairy tales. The excerpt is from my take...