Solstice: Fortune’s Path

12/20/202412/20/2024 / Liz H-H / 5 Comments

Happiest Winter Solstice. The days get longer from here on in!

Delighted and honored to be published (as alter-ego Tessa Kjeldsdottir) in Eternal Haunted Summer’s Winter Solstice e-zine (https://eternalhauntedsummer.com/)! Click on the link for full access to this issue’s poetry, short stories, and essays, and more.

Click (https://eternalhauntedsummer.com/issues/winter-solstice-2024/fortunes-path/ ) to go directly to my short story “Fortune’s Path”, a Hansel & Gretel re-visioning, with a surprise ending.

Many thanks to Karen, Kate and Alice for beta-reading and encouragement!

New Life, New Love

12/16/202412/16/2024 / Liz H-H / 19 Comments

Outside a small touristy shop, there's a statue of a wooden cow anda park bench.

Many thanks to Jenne Gray and C.E. Ayr for their photo prompt, THE UNICORN CHALLENGE. 12/13/2024). No more than 250 words in length.

What to have? Continue reading →

Legend Has It…

12/07/2024 / Liz H-H / 18 Comments

Weathered sailboat beached on a strip of river bank. Been there s long time

Many thanks to Jenne Gray and C.E. Ayr for their photo prompt, THE UNICORN CHALLENGE. 12/06/2024). No more than 250 words in length.

It hadn’t been much of a storm, just enough to suck up a sailboat, a couple of cows, a wagon load of hay, and Mrs. Johnson’s yappy little Chihuahua. Continue reading →

Dragon Tale

12/07/2024 / Liz H-H / 6 Comments

The tunnel was twisted and long, hard rock alternating with slippery sand, no light shining through its natural chimneys as she’d been told to come during night time; she knew the way, having traversed so many times, and knew that the rising humidity heralded the glow of underground mushrooms.

Zillarda waited for the visitor, curled tight around her steadily-decreasing horde. Continue reading →

Haunted or Hunted?

11/29/2024 / Liz H-H / 11 Comments

Black Side gate of a country cottage, except there's a red door behind it, and it looks like a face. Read on!

“I’m telling you, I’m not going to their cottage for the weekend!”

“Whyever not?” Perplexed I was, that once again, he was refusing. “It’s not like we’re going for the fox hunt. Haven’t done that for years!” Continue reading →

Midnight Sun 5

11/03/2024 / Liz H-H / 16 Comments

Small house on a rocky moutain top, cloudy sky and evergreen healthy

Many thanks to Jenne Gray and C.E. Ayr for their photo prompt, THE UNICORN CHALLENGE. 11/01/2024). No more than 250 words in length.

It was slow going, but once they’d gotten through the heavy new growth at forest’s edge, the journeywoman relaxed in the saddle and let Horse take the lead following the glacial stream. The further along they went, the broader the tree trunks, and the greater the space between them. She’d not slept well the night before and the slow, undulating climb had lulled her into a dream. Or perhaps it was a vision? Continue reading →

Better Angels

10/28/202410/30/2024 / Liz H-H / 26 Comments

Youndg man in kilt and knee socks on the bench playing a small guitar, spare by his side, in the hallway of a brightly lit modern pub.

Andi checked the address on her cell phone, grumbling, “You’re sure this is the place…it looks awfully ‘country club’ to need our skills?” Continue reading →

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