once upon a time...
Deadly Mist
The mist crept closer, slithering across the boot prints she left behind on the soft, moist ground. She urged her legs to go faster over the uneven path. A leafless tree grabbed at the flying strands of her long silver hair as she ran past. They hung like shiny tinsel from its branches. The mist...

Once upon a Phoenix street
The three sisters had grown tall and bored…of the streets and the ball of fire above them that burned the ends of their fine strands....

At the end of all things…
They looked out the window, twenty-two stories down to the empty streets. Big Foot poured a double shot of whiskey in two glasses. He took...

In the beginning…
Two sisters sat in their mother’s living room as the rain rat-tatted on the tin roof. The one with brown eyes scrolled endlessly through the...

What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Here we are already rolling into the month of Love. February seemed to just show up out of the blue. Kind of like that unexpected...

Lethal Amounts of Joy
The town officials have condemned and scheduled the building behind me for demolition. Authorities say that a group of rebels have been using the building...

Ice Cream Fairy
She hadn’t meant for the bridge to fall away under the hooves of the hero’s horse, or for the peasant girl to turn into a...


