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That Romantic First Date

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Who remembers their first date?

Was it good? Funny? Sweet? Romantic? Or so horrific you've pushed it to the back of your mind intent on never thinking of it, or him, ever again?

With Valentine's Day I wondered what to write about for this day of romance.

Then I thought about first dates.

When I was in college I worked as a teletype operator in a Sears catalog satellite store in my home town. I was what you'd call a junior supervisor while the guy I later married worked in the stock room. That's r...

Cupid Gets Even

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A Note from Linda: This flash fiction was written before Wicked by Any Other Name was published. I thought it would be nice to bring it back.

"Welcome to Romantic Spirits. We're here to show you all the romantic places to visit," the perky blonde with dark gold eyes and a feline cast to her features held a heart-shaped microphone stood in front of an old-fashioned wood building. "Last week we interviewed Havelock Tennart, the troll with romance so deep in his heart, he actually spirited the...

Love and Bunny Slippers

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"Are you sure you know what you're doing?" Fluff looked over Barney's shoulder as the whie mini Schnauzer tapped away on the laptop keyboard.





"I watch Mom do this every day," the dog insisted, waving him off with a paw.





"This won't work," Puff groused, rummaging in a drawer.





"You better get out of Linda's chocolate stash," Barney warned. "If she finds that See's box empty of her Bordeauxs she'll be having Jazz lock you up for the next thousand years." He groaned as he watched an empty white...

Twas the Night Before Valentine's by Kristen Lamb

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Kristen Lamb has graciously allowed this to be reposted, so I had to share.

Twas the Night Before Valentinesby Author Kristen Lamb
http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/



Twas the night before Valentines, and all through the land
The poor single people were wringing their hands
Handcuffs were hung by the nighties with care
Near the lotions and chocolates and mint underwear.
A day made by Hallmark to sell lots of stuff
Pushing candies and kittens and kisses and fluff
A day that makes "Single" a social...

A Tour of Crying Souls Hospital

I see the hospital inside my head as a 3-D building. Too bad I can't just download it to my computer. :} So I'll do the best I can to show you what the hospital is like.

"You're all going to die!" The un-named vulture that perched over the hospital entrance flapped his wings and craned his head, snapping his beak at all who approached the gothic-style building.

Hm, A hospital designed to keep you alive and a vulture designed to want you dead and rotting.

I vote for the hospital.

All Souls has...

How Paranormal Chose Me

I've often been asked why I chose to write paranormal and I have to say that it was more that paranormal chose me.

My favorite books growing up were fairy tales and my comic books were Casper the Ghost and Wendy the Little Witch. Yes, it dates me. Hm, I wonder what they'd be worth now if I'd kept them.

We have a house ghost named Frank, so yes, paranormal is all around me. I think he's a secret cook since utensils tend to disappear at odd times then reappear in the same spot later on. We...

Why Cleo Makes Me Laugh

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There are always scenes in a book that I either laugh or cry over the most.

I always knew one of the witches would have a cat. I just didn't know it would be someone like Cleo.





I probably look more than a little strange as I type away and laugh or sniffle. With A Demon Does it Better it has to be Cleo who had me laughing. A cat who overindulges in catnip wine can only turn out hilarious. She may have started out life as the queen of the Nile and known for her lovers, Cleo is now a plump...

Demons Do It Better!

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The list can be so long and give a woman a lot of ideas!

I'm sure many of you have read books where the demons are downright ugly and totally gross.

Then there are the demons who are sex on the hoof.

Jared in A Demon Does It Better is one of those.

What does a demon do better? He can take an innocuous moment and make it so sexy that you would melt. Such as he did with his first meeting with Lili when she's in a scent shop in the magickal plane of Inderman.

Can you imagine holding a bottle of...

A Magickal Fusion

Welcome to the world of magick and mayhem

Hm, if I'm not careful I'll be humming a magickal version of 'It's A Small World'! And now you'll hate me for that tune bouncing around inside your head.

But if you think about it the title works well for the world I've created.

I'm an only child so perhaps that's why world building turns so real for me.

It's always been difficult for me to describe my world since it resides inside my head. Sort of a special computer that allows me to switch from one...

A World of Magick

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Anyone who's known me for a long time is aware I'm actually very shy. Ask me about myself and I sort of stare at the floor. I'm not trying to be difficult, but I can't imagine anyone wants to know about me.

Ask me about my critters and I'll talk your ear off. Ask me about my books and your other ear will follow ear number one. And you'll be running for the hills.

I think it also has to do with something that happened in 1983 when I was still a newly published author with my third book...