Short Fiction Excerpts

Just a Smidgen of Magic 

Excerpts of Just a Smidgen of Magic

Five flash fiction stories from the edge of the realm of magic–enchanted moments, realizations, answering the call, and returning.

• Artifacts: Pay attention to the Mothers when they give you a warning.
• The Croning: In every woman’s life,  her time will come.
• Not Even One Wish: No only should you be careful what you wish for, but whom you wish to.
• Taffy’s Tale: It’s a high price to pay to be fed by the Fae.
• Zen of Cool: A full moon, a festival, a fiddler, and a fool in the hills of Appalachia

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Walking Off Heaven’s Shore  

Excerpts- Walking off Heavens Shore

A ten-piece bucket of Southern-fried flash fiction

• Walking off Heaven’s Shore:
• Washed in the flood of knowing
• Intervention:
  Mothers and daughters–can it ever work?
• Turning Point:
  Friday morning, a cup of coffee, a decision
• Pachelbel’s Canyons:  (prose poem)
  Mall Markswoman Maintains Muzak Manifested Mayhem
• Walk the Dog:
  Who’s holding which end of the leash?
• The Fire Inside:
  Can he stand the heat?
• Kitchen Witchery: (poem)
  The art of female bonding across generations
• Swamp of the Soul:
  You only see the snakes if you look for them.
• Storm Front:
  Revenge served cold is slippery when wet.
• The last time I Dated a Serial Killer
  A literate man is hard to find.

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Port Nowhere

Did you like the space bar scene in Star Wars part IV? You’ll love Port Nowhere.

• Circle of the Beryl: for what would Crila give an arm?
• Initiation: Will Crila survive the bargain she made?
• Odd One Out: (a draft): Crila meets a rare Ophidian male.
• Out of Water: Can Jule get Trillfin off the Rock?
• Out of the Depths: How many ways can man face death?
• Surface Tension: Trillfin between the Rock and Nowhere.
• Plus stories by Elaine Corvidae, Jim Johnson, Gail McAbee Steve Thompson,and Christopher Wilkerson