Tag: fiction

A New Year

My writing group chose the prompt: The Start Of The New Year. Here’s what I came up with: The aroma of pine needles stubbornly clung to the air, a ghost of Christmas past. January had arrived, cloaked in fog and silence, a stark contrast to the snowy merriment of December. Amelia was taking down the last of the holiday decorations…

Fiddler’s Pie

In 2019, The World Of Myth Magazine published my short story “Fiddlers Pie,” a funny piece about a pie-baking witch and her consort. They made a living by putting a spell on tourists after they ate free pie, forcing them to dance and do their bidding for seven years. This is one of my favorite pieces and the first published…