Short Story for Fandango’s Friday Flashback: The Tale of Fithir and Eliandel

Sharing for Fandango's Friday Flashback! I originally shared this story on June 28, 2018 for Throwback Thursday.  Photo by Martin Jernberg on Unsplash. Today's snippet of story is a fragment I wrote during the holiday break leading into 2013. I had set myself the goal of writing at least 500 words every day, which had some interesting results. …

Short Story for Fandango’s Friday Flashback: A Discovery in the Snow, Part III

For Fandango's Friday Flashback, I'm sharing this bit of story that I originally posted on September 14, 2018. Somehow I didn't have any posts from February 14 even though I've been blogging for two years. I realize it's been over a month since I last posted, but I hope to post more frequently beginning today. …

Story for Throwback Thursday #39

Photo by Noah Silliman on Unsplash. I wrote this story almost nine years ago for a class on children's literature. This story was inspired by an exercise we did, involving sets of cards with characters, locations, and objects. I was a freshman in college then and didn't know what kind of thing I wanted to write or how to …

The Five Children, Part 2

You can read the first part of this story here. The five children were hungry. Oliver was threatening to scream for what might have been the fiftieth time, Victor’s teeth had somehow grown even pointer, and Emil’s eyes kept flashing a peculiar shade of yellow, one that was definitely not human. “We have to do …

Throwback Thursday #15

Photo by Linn Creutzer from Pexels Today's snippet of story is a fragment I wrote during the holiday break leading into 2013. I had set myself the goal of writing at least 500 words every day, which had some interesting results. In reading back through my work at that time, I can see the improvement …

Throwback Thursday #13

I'm a little late with this post because yesterday turned out to be a full day, but here I am now. The following story is one I wrote over five years ago, while taking a class in which I got very bored and fidgety. This story just sort of happened without a lot of thought, …

Throwback Thursday #10

I know I said I would try to keep on top of posting, but I have a submission deadline coming up in just three days, and to be honest, it's been difficult to balance that project with my regular posts. I'm still warming up my writing muscles. For now, here's the start of a fairy …

The Witch’s House (FFfAW)

Photo credit Goroyboy https://flashfictionforaspiringwriters.wordpress.com/2018/04/16/fffaw-challenge-163rd/ https://dailypost.wordpress.com/prompts/fret/ The two children, shivering slightly in the damp cold of late November, stood on the front steps and watched the door. “Just go up and knock,” the girl whispered to her brother. “No!” he fretted in a whisper. “It’s not safe! She’s a witch!” “They say she’s a witch,” she …

The Minstrel’s Tale (Throwback Thursday)

Today I'm posting the beginning of a story I started writing back in the spring of 2013. One of my best friends and I had been playing a story game while travelling somewhere on a bus, and the story we invented became the basis for this one. Recently I was looking back through some of …

The Dragon and the Flutes (Throwback Thursday)

Photo by Ricardo Cruz on Unsplash   Here we are at Throwback Thursday again. This time I'm sharing a short story I wrote about six-and-a-half years ago. *** The Dragon and the Flutes Once upon a time on the edge of a great forest there was a kingdom. This kingdom was neither large nor small; …