The Daisy Deal

The sun rose over the horizon, soft pinks and warm oranges creeping across the crops, bathing the patio and Amelia’s feet in light. A daisy chain hung around her neck, made the day before and already beginning to wilt. The book said she needed one and she’d spent all of yesterday collecting the daisies, traveling …

What Follows in the Woods (Part II)

Her breath billowed out around her in a fog, swirling across her cheeks before falling away behind her. She crashed through the trees, branches snagging at her sweater and undergrowth clawing into the flesh of her bare legs, but she kept pushing herself, each step reverberating through her feet and up into her spine, rattling …

What Follows in the Woods

A second thud of skull against rock and the body went still. The forest seemed to inhale, all bird twittering gone silent, the wind stagnant. The girls inched closer to one another, Annie with the rock gripped in her hands still, jagged edge dampened with blood.             “He’s not moving,” Meg whispered. Blood leaked from …

Four Witches and a Human

Based on the writing prompt above ~ “Cute little human, isn’t it?” a voice cooed somewhere to my left. I blinked open my eyes to soft morning light filtering through my window, but they didn’t stay open long. Sleep flickered at the edges of my vision, the voice, I assumed, nothing more than the leftover …

The Side of the Highway

He pulled the car off to the side of the highway, and she glanced over at him, a frown pursing her lips down. Outside, the wind tore through the fields of wheat around them, rippling it like an ocean tide, and the clouds grew darker, pushing the daylight away. “Why are you stopping?” she asked. …

Discussion with Samantha Cohoe: Author of “A Golden Fury”

I was given the opportunity to be a part of the blog tour for Samantha Cohoe’s debut novel, “A Golden Fury”, meaning I was able to read the advanced reader’s copy and ask Samantha a few questions about the book! Set in the in the 1800s in England, “A Golden Fury” follows Thea, a young …

Jeff

To preface this story, I based it off of the writing prompt shown in the photo below from @writing.prompt.s on Instagram. It was quick and fun to write, and I'm hoping it will get me back into writing short stories and posting them on here. ~ ~ “I’m serious, I’m an immortal. And Jeff? That …

Arabella

The girl stared down the cliff at the raging sea, her hands raised and fingers moving along to the rush of the waves. She could see the ship in the distance, but she needed it closer, needed it to smash against the rocks below. Her hands continued moving as the magic built within her chest, …

Beta Readers

The scariest moment as a writer is showing other people your work. For most of my writing life, I haven't shown other people my work because I was too afraid to hear opinions and I was too much of a perfectionist to accept that it would never be perfect. So I never let go to …

I Hope You’re Listening by Tom Ryan- Review

3.5/5 Stars *I received this from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review* At seven years old Delia “Dee” Skinner watched her best friend get kidnapped and now, ten years later, Dee is the host and creator of the podcast, Radio Silent. She uses it as a means to gather and share information about missing …