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!

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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Giant Problem Solved

10/24/202312/08/2023 / Liz H-H / Leave a comment

A little scare, a little giggle // This re-release sits right in the middle…Thanks to Doug Jacquier and Witcraft.org // For accepting my sense of humor // And my alter-ego Tessa Kjeldsdottir.

Please click below to view the story.

https://witcraft.org/2023/10/25/giant-problem-solved/

© Liz Husebye Hartmann (2023)

The Hundred Acre Wood Goes Dark

11/23/2022 / Liz H-H / 4 Comments

Carrots. Original public domain image from Wikimedia Commons

Family, friends and relations were spread all about the warren’s floor, bellies pooched upwards, at the insistence of their innards. The holiday feast, so successful, meant that nobody had energy enough to grab the remote and turn on the football game. “Oh my!” they all sighed. Continue reading →

Sometimes a Miracle!

08/30/202108/30/2021 / Liz H-H / 6 Comments

Maximilian munched on his last MLT sandwich. The sun set over the mesa he lived atop. Years ago, it’d split away – like magic! – as the surrounding continent had sunk under the ocean. The sheep dwindled, while lettuce, tomatoes, and wheat thrived. Continue reading →

Well, Why Not? (Part 4)

08/16/202108/16/2021 / Liz H-H / 8 Comments

Sister Indelicata left the cacophony of squeals and laughter behind her; the tall, hardwood door sneezed delicately shut, blessing the happy, healed family. Indelicata’s bare feet whispered swift and sure, softer than the guttering of the beeswax candles that provided more scent than light. Continue reading →

Well, Why Not? (Part 3)

08/07/202108/16/2021 / Liz H-H / 11 Comments

The twins pushed the net over their heads, flinging it to the side. “Well Mam-Duchess, why DON’T you marry one? We’re still just kids, after all!”

Sister Indelicata tipped her head, as she gathered up her seal-hunting net. That was the most grown-up thing they’d ever said. Perhaps those girls had promise, after all. Continue reading →

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