Making Love of Sorrow     Every one of us will be rejected. Sometimes, it occurs over and over. Sometimes, it’s small—like when the person in your French class chose to sit by Debbie Richland instead of you. Sometimes, it’s big—like when your fiancé realizes he doesn’t want to be with you a month before the wedding. You think […]

I promised some of my Twitter peeps a new short, and I rarely lie. Well, sometimes. When it’s important. Or useful. Or I’m writing. 😉  I considered splitting this into three parts due to its size, but I figured that’d just make some of you pissy…and I didn’t want that. So, here’s a longer short (ha!) for you:   Romeo […]

It’s been a while since I posted a free short…so here’s a contemporary magical realism one for you. Let me know what you think.   Incant Me Her spell had gone really wrong…like horribly wrong…which was probably why the book came with warning labels that it was only to be used by the most advanced of necromancers. Cassidy had nowhere […]

Masked Charades Dayna’s roommate was groping the guy she’d said had the IQ of a piece of celery. Tomie had to recognize that guy—he’d been hitting on her for the length of the entire cruise. Maybe Tomie did recognize him, but there was something about the anonymity of this last night on the island for the singles’ cruise with them […]

While I enjoy baseball, I’m not a super fan, and I will admit my favorite part of watching the Mariners live is the garlic fries, so I got this checked by the most rabid baseball fan I know. Thanks, Sherri.     Fourth Strike   It was not a good sign that the best part of the date began after […]

It’s been a while since I posted a free story. When I was in high school, one of the seniors there was in a wheelchair–he’d wrapped his car around a pole shortly after learning to drive. And I remember at one of the school dances, he’d pulled his date onto his lap on the wheelchair to slow-dance with her. (My […]

This is one of my longer ones, so I considered splitting it up over two nights, but…meh…you’re big kids…you can handle it. Just go use the bathroom before you start reading, and don’t forget to wash your hands.       Are You Ready?   He lived by rules. His entire life. All thirty years. The rules had done right […]

Once upon a time, I was working on this story set in the South, and I got really into studying accents and slang–including watching Youtube videos of people with accents, and I ran across this phrase a few times–including in a video–“sweet Pete!” and it just struck me as awesomely colloquial and something a guy could pull off with enough charm.   […]

So, this is one of my favorite stories–and a first person short.       The Impossible Apprentice   My parents had decided that I should be apprenticed to the brightest and best of the up-and-coming sorcerers when I’d revealed my aptitude. I was the first in the last three generations with even enough ability to move a thimble. Unlike […]

So, Sarah from Twitter requested a Sci-fi, so here you go. Seducing Izzy     The airlock closed behind them with a fwoosh. Of all the stupid things! Getting stuck in quarantine for twenty-four hours because she’d been chosen to work with Marcus for the day was completely unfair. As if it wasn’t bad enough that the gray room seemed […]