You know what the best part of sleeping is? Dreaming. I swear my sleeping brain is hella creative. Often I wake up the following morning, turn to my husband and say ‘I had the craziest dream last night’ and after explaining the bizarre dream in its entirety, he usually replies with ‘How do you come up … More Creating Fiction From Dreams
At the end of December, with tiny wisps of New Year’s Resolutions floating in my brain, I made a promise. I promised myself that 2016 would be the year of my writing. I promised that I would not only write more, but also take my writing career to the next level. For me that meant … More Wispy Writing Things: My Return to Flash Fiction
It’s been more than just a little while, but folks I’ve finally done it. I’ve submitted a piece for Lillie McFerrin‘s Five Sentence Fiction. I hope I’m not too rusty! The word this week is Midnight. In the quiet hours of early morning, cast in darkness and doubt, he sits alone contemplating his existence. It’s … More Five Sentence Fiction – Midnight
Miss Dark Fairy herself – Anna Meade – is hosting yet another flash fiction contest and readers, I am proud to announce I managed to get my <enter explicit here> together to enter! In fact it closes October 13th so I am WAY ahead of the game. *happy dance of a dark fairy nature* The … More Behind the Curtain – Flash Fiction Contest
There wasn’t much she could do about the broken hinges on her bedroom door, so she resigned to turning away and putting it from her mind. It nagged at her though, gnawing away at her consciousness and digging its crawls into her heart. His promise to fix all that he’d destroyed lingered in the space … More Five Sentence Fiction – Memories
Across the night, was the moon that stole my slumber…across the night, I fell in love with people sleeping…Silverchair sang sweetly into the darkness as Puck folded his arms above and behind his head and wiggled himself into the slump of the mattress below. Around him the lyrics bounced off the empty walls of his … More Five Sentence Fiction – Night
The mist seemed to dissipate as she drew nearer the loch revealing the weathered castle in the distance, just as she remembered it. The ride had been fraught with illness leaving her exhausted; an oath sworn – still wet on her lips – that she would never undertake such an arduous journey anew. Beneath her … More Five Sentence Fiction – Distance
Quite literally. Today I’m judging the infamous #MenageMonday Challenge over at Cara Michaels’ blog. If you’ve never participated, the premise is this: 3 prompts + 100-200 words = Flash Fiction Contest Awesome, right? So what are you waiting for?! Go enter!
There would be no cameras nor media standing by to snap a picture and interview her when she finished. No award ceremony, no playing of the national anthem and most certainly no crowds waving flags and Bristol board signs in the air with her name scrawled in magic marker and embellished with silver and gold … More Five Sentence Fiction – Victory
The tension knot that first appeared in her lower back, had worked its way to her shoulders and neck causing her to slouch and invoke an image of a woman much older than herself. She caught herself releasing heavy sighs for even the most miniscule tasks; a sign that she was taking on far too … More Five Sentence Fiction – Perseverance
