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December 15, 2015
Star of Wonder, Star of Night: Part Six
Continued from Part Five, or you can start from the beginning. Ivy watched as Phlox and the goat-rescuer talked over one another in their mutual haste to make sense of one another. Snippets were all she caught. “Julia never mentioned…” “Haven’t seen her since…” “Family nearby…” “… my sister, Ivy.” “Ivy?” The man, Sterling, or […]
December 14, 2015
Star of Wonder, Star of Night: Part Five
Continued from Part Four, or you can start from the beginning. Four straight days of Phlox’s company reminded Ivy why she’d left the counseling practice she’d worked so hard to build. Her sister spent her days surfingthe arteries of modern life as a social media manager for a popular U.S. Senator. Ivy knew Phlox worked […]
December 12, 2015
Ralph Fiennes is Losing His Hair
I clicked on one of those nonsense “articles” about what the stars of the Harry Potter film franchise look likenow. We’ll start there. At the end, is Ralph Fiennes, so many years after taking over the role of Voldemort. Sitting at my kitchen table, listening to Christmas carols and contemplating my coffee, I said aloud […]
December 11, 2015
Star of Wonder, Star of Night: Part Four
Continued from Part Three, you can start at the beginning: A ride along with Tony was like strappinginto a tourist attraction. Sterling sat back, watching the changes in his hometown roll by while Tony talked. As they passed a newly constructed commercial property with a coffee shop, a Chinese take-out counter, and a Rite-Aid: “Golden […]
December 10, 2015
Star of Wonder, Star of Night: Part Three
Continued from Part Two, or you can start at the beginning: Sterling Westwoke up to the whining buzz of a chipper and bashed his head against the low eave under which he’d been sleeping. He rubbed his head and swung his feet over the side of the bed. He’d been dreaming of goats and giants […]
December 9, 2015
Star of Wonder, Star of Night: Part Two
Continued from Part One: A strawberry blonde in a pencil skirt and crisp white blousewas at the stove when Ivy returned. Ivy took note of her baby sister’s seamed stockings and the stiletto heels sitting on one of her kitchen chairs. Shestomped the snow from her boot treads and shrugged out of her down jacket. […]
December 8, 2015
Star of Wonder, Star of Night: Part One
Ivy’s foot sank through the powderysnow and she felt a fresh, slushy wetness seep into her fleece socks. She sighed deeply, and hollered into the darkness beyond the beam from her club-sized Maglite. When nothing but her own weary shouting echoed back to her through the woods, she groaned skyward. The Pleiades were unsympathetic. Ivy […]
October 29, 2015
Ain’t No Garden…
It’s Wordcount Podcast time again. I did mention that I was submitting a story for the Hallowe’en episode. Ghost stories are not my natural writing sweet spot, though I love a reading or hearing good, spooky story. I’m going to just leave this string of tweets here, from contributor Chris Smith, and you can find […]
October 21, 2015
A Gilded Promise for the Wordcount 50th
I am The Worst. I started this post nearly a month ago, and only remembered that I never posted it when I finished drafting this episode’s story. R. B. Wood’s Word Count Podcast turned 50 last month! The fiftieth episode aired on its fifth anniversary, and my story A Gilded Promise (which is a teaser […]
October 20, 2015
October Song
There is something magical about the light in October. I can’t ever quite articulate it. Something about theclarity—a hushed, soft clarity, a dignified kind of quiet brightness… Perhaps it’s to do with the effect of sunlight falling on the painted leaves that, while green, were merely a canopy of sturdy summer shade. Cornflower blue skies, […]
