Snowflakes articulated in dust, water, and cold, a crystalline language of elegant design and utter indifference. Compacted on the pond… Read more Nature Tweets
Category: Fiction
ZANE’S VERSION OF HAMLET
THE PHILOSOPHY OF HORATIO: Copyright and art by Cecily Winter Dec. 2019 “Anything is possible,” Hamlet used to say as… Read more ZANE’S VERSION OF HAMLET
9. Putting on the Wellies / SUSPENSE
PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE IN NARRATORS NOTES FROM “The Unreliable Narrator,” a lecture by Carol Goodman Crime Bake, MA. 2019 Narrator fallibility… Read more 9. Putting on the Wellies / SUSPENSE
A FLASHWORDS WINNER AT THE 2019 CRIME BAKE
A 150 word crime-flash using 10 prompts from the titles of Anne Cleeves’ novels. CORPSE WITH GANNETS by Susan B.… Read more A FLASHWORDS WINNER AT THE 2019 CRIME BAKE
A VSS365 TWEET ANTHOLOGY
Collected shorts poetic, dark, eerie, and amazing. See them (with one of mine) at VSS365 Anthology Volume One available on… Read more A VSS365 TWEET ANTHOLOGY
A FAIRY TALE: THE LITTLE HOUSE THAT COULD
A whimsical and highly anachronistic re-telling of ‘Hansel and Gretel’ and the little house that saved them from the stew… Read more A FAIRY TALE: THE LITTLE HOUSE THAT COULD
WARTIME SPARROWS: short story
A post World War II mystery about American servicemen in Great Britain and the suspicious death of a local girl. … Read more WARTIME SPARROWS: short story
THE MANY WAYS OF HEARTBREAK
A schoolgirl’s determination to remain in her native Manhattan, whatever the cost, sends her down some dark alleys in life’s… Read more THE MANY WAYS OF HEARTBREAK
TWEETS: BIG SCORES
The weather is near sentient here. Winds scraping the planet’s arid surface carry the detritus of bitter salts & granular… Read more TWEETS: BIG SCORES
THE DRAGON HARPIST
An upper middle-grade Work-in-Progress in the final stages of editing: A post-Earth fantasy adventure… Read more THE DRAGON HARPIST