Song of the Sea

03/24/202403/25/2024 / Liz H-H / 25 Comments

From Jenne Gray and C.E. Ayr’s photo prompt, The Unicorn Challenge (03/24/2024). No more than 250 words in length.

“So many to choose from,” Douglass breathed, mouthpiece in one hand, carefully considering his next step. He’d waited under the dock, saving the oxygen in his scuba tank. The docks ceased their sway and rattle as the heavy footfalls of captains and crew stumbled up to the clubhouse for an exclusive marina fundraiser. They’d strung lights on boom, mast, and stays, sure that the sea gods wouldn’t rain on their parade. Continue reading →

Baba and the Hood

11/29/202311/29/2023 / Liz H-H / 14 Comments

The challenge? Write a story in exactly 6 sentences based on Denise’s one word prompt: DETAIL

Visit, comment, and write & post your own on Six Sentence Stories :

Squinting, she ran a wrinkled hand around its polished brass curves, walking all around the vehicle as she examined all surfaces and admired its fine detailing, inside and out. Continue reading →

Modrigal’s Gift

11/22/2023 / Liz H-H / 15 Comments

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The challenge? Write a story in exactly 6 sentences based on Denise’s one word prompt: LINK. Visit, comment, and write & post your own on Six Sentence Stories

He wore many chains about his neck, mostly gold, some mixed and linked to polished stones, some of these gemstones.

The mirror in front of him showed their glint against his naked chest and graying hair, and though his eyes had been brilliant blue in his youth, they’d faded over the years, both of color and of the life force that supplied their vitality. Continue reading →

New Style

11/18/2023 / Liz H-H / 14 Comments

From Jenne Gray and C.E. Ayr’s photo prompt, The Unicorn Challenge (11/17/23). No more than 250 words in length. Otherwise, let your creative flag fly!

Odd had told her the barber shop was three blocks over from the warehouse they were squatting in. It wasn’t that they didn’t have money. They just didn’t want to use it for nonessentials. When he’d seen the ragged job she’d done cutting her hair, he’d decided: a proper clean up was essential. Odd always had the final say, so here she was, ambling down the street in the early hours. Continue reading →

Eye of the Sparrow

11/04/202311/06/2023 / Liz H-H / 3 Comments

I spy, with my little eye, a newsletter right now, a book coming in Spring 2024, and immediately, the poem that inspired the tale! From Lissa Sloan:

Wishes are dangerous.

They can bring you a night out, a gown, a pair of slippers. Or something you never should have wished for.

After the royal wedding, the girl in the glass slippers has everything she wanted: an escape from a life of drudgery, an innate magical gift, and a devoted husband who looks at her like she is the only one in the room. But all wishes come with a price. To the people of the palace, she is an outsider, nothing more. Even her famous shoes cannot help her—the glass slippers no longer fit.

GLASS AND FEATHERS–out in 2024 from The Enchanted Press

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Seasons Greetings

10/26/2023 / Liz H-H / 6 Comments

Mushrooming

Rainfall and temps drop

Puffballs are the favored crop

You are what you eat

Soulful Samhain to those who celebrate, and Happy Halloween to the rest o’ yez!

Cover Reveal!

09/21/202309/21/2023 / Liz H-H / 7 Comments

Announcing…Glass and Feathers by Lissa Sloan.

We all know one version or another of the Cinderella story: rags to riches, dumping a dysfunctional family, but getting the handsome prince and a new home by story’s end. But what happens next?

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Valley of the Trolls

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