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Raven’s Eye: A Serial Book
Chapter 1 A raven’s cry broke the silence of her reverie. Asha jerked awake from her meditation, her breath coming hard and fast as adrenalin coursed through her body. The elderly shaman raised her head, peering with slitted eyes at the young girl with the hair like moonlight. “What did you see?” “I saw. .…
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The ShadowWalker of Sledgehammer Gulch
Happy Halloween! As always, the month of my favorite holiday has gotten away from me. For whatever reason, every year I plan a great month of decorations, costume parties and general fun. But every year life decides it has other plans and before I know it, the month is over and everyone is talking about…
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Life as a Part-Time Professional Writer: Debut Novel Realizations
AKA: Trying to Climb the mountain in Flip flops When I published my first book (I say it that way because it will not be the last), my boyfriend got all excited. He loved my book, and he was sure everyone else would too. In his brain, we’d be rich in no time. No, he…
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15 Minute Stories: The 9 Lives of Bast
The kitten lazed on the floor in the patch of sunlight, reveling in the warmth on her fur. Lying on her back, she reached overhead, extending her claws, watching as the translucent weapons glistened in the light. “Where do you go every night?” She asked Thalia, the black cat who sat composed at the window…
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15 Minute Stories: All I Want Are Sunflowers
The sunflower waved in the wind, its heavy head rocking back and forth like a metronome. The yellow petals were slowly unfurling from its darkened face, like someone slowly stretching in the morning. She watched the flower out of the window, the tea cup she held halfway to her mouth forgotten as she sat mesmerized…
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15 Minute Stories: All that Glitters
The Prixiator surveyed his flock with a smug satisfaction. The pews were filled with the highest ranking families in the kingdom. The men were dressed in the finest silks, the whitest shirts, with gold watches and silver canes. The women were similarly decked out in whalebone corsets, silk, lace, gold, silver, and sparkling gems. All…
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15-Minute Story: Wolf Moon
He watched as the moons rose into the night sky. The first was full, the light shining brightly over the forest. Its light filtered down through the pine trees, bathing the ground in scattered shadows. The second moon was almost half-full, its light melding and blending with the first. The third was a slowly thickening…
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What’s Up? Summer Edition
Ever have one of those moments where life gets busy and you have to choose what to stop focusing on? The “I’ll call them next week” or “I’ll deal with that when things slow down” moments? Then you blink and you realize its been two months (or six) and you still haven’t done the thing?…
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Learning my craft: 15 minute story writing
So they say that writing is a craft, and like any craft, it takes time to get good. You need to practice and learn new skills and techniques. Find out your strengths and weaknesses. There’s a lot of ways to do this for writing, according to the internet. But I recently remembered something I tried…
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