Inktober53 2023: Shadow

Yeah, I wasn't quite sure how to end this, but I'm not mad. Wisps of darkness cling to the ground where Ryker stands. His body is taunt, the muscles in his back rippling like a sail billowed with wind. “Ryker?” Wren’s voice is a whisper but it echoes over the deck of the ship. Rip’s …

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Top Ten Tuesday: 2023 Bookish Goals

This week's Top Ten Tuesday prompt is Bookish Goals for 2023. I always waffle on what I want my bookish goals to be. Sometimes I want a challenge, sometimes I want them to be easy, and sometimes I don't want any goals at all. Here are a few things I hope to accomplish related to …

Inktober52 2023: Puppet

This drabble kind of ran away from me and the focus (puppet), but I'm okay with it because it's helping me understand my characters and their world better. “Wren?” a voice piped up from beyond the tent flaps. A voice of honey and sugar and all things sweet. Eliza. With the golden curls that Wren …

Inktober52 2023: Build

My cold fingers scramble to light the match that will build this fire into a blazing inferno. Over and over, I scrape the match against the rough red of the matchbox. But again and again, the match snaps in half. Unlit. I toss away the broken pieces, adding more kindling to the growing pile of …

Random Story Idea #4

Squad of female knights kicking ass and taking names I don't know what else. Do I need anything else?

Random Story Idea #2

A retelling of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland but its set in a circus.

Fair Food

I wrote this prose poem several years ago when I met my friend's fiancé (now husband) for the first time while attending our local fair. Since it's Labor Day and I just went to the fair a few days ago, I thought I'd repost it again. The aura of hay and animal sweat mingles with …

Top Ten Tuesday: Characters Who Write

This week's Top Ten Tuesday prompt is Bookish Characters. I've probably at some point done a Top Ten Tuesday post about characters who love books or reading, so instead, I'm going to focus on fictional characters who write. Jo March from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: The most obvious fictional writer is Jo March, …

Random Story Idea #1

I kind of want to write a Bonnie and Clyde retelling but with magic.

To Infinity

I wrote this in college for a poetry class and I still love it. I stand with the boots of my spacesuitleaving traces in the dust of the crater planet.Above me: the universe.All at once.Glimmering out against the void. Star clusters radiate like crowns.Aureole everywhere.Bright, glazing,swirling in a blur of light. I take a small …