Kitchen Flare 101 / 1. Update house and life insurance, locate fire extinguisher. 2. Prepare ingredients for crepes suzette. 3.… Read more HINTS FROM HELPFUL HARRIET AT HOME
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WINTER TWEETS 2020s
Choking briar gave name to the north ingress as Bramble Pass, later unofficially changed to Scramble Pass. Too thick for… Read more WINTER TWEETS 2020s
I SERVE THE GREY GODS
By Cecily Winter We await the song of the gray gods with heads bowed and hearts heavy. We await the… Read more I SERVE THE GREY GODS
THE PANIC BUTTON
A short autobiographical piece recently published by the CABINET OF HEED read here or at http://cabinetofheed.com by Cecily Winter… Read more THE PANIC BUTTON
CARELESS NATURE VERSE or something like …
A windmill’s wings turn to sing a creaking lullaby of ground wheat for rooks roosting in their sails. Stars blaze… Read more CARELESS NATURE VERSE or something like …
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
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 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
A post World War II mystery about American servicemen in Great Britain and the suspicious death of a local girl. … Read more WARTIME SPARROWS
THE MURDER BOUTIQUE
In the Journal of Speculative Fiction, Kyanite Press (Issue 5/Vol. 1/May-June 2019) pages 64-75. In a world of universal surveillance,… Read more THE MURDER BOUTIQUE