"An elderly lady gains voluptuous youth through magic, but wonders if the price is too high."
Laura Lioness’s hips hurt. She wondered if she needed hip replacement. She limped to her dresser and pulled out one dark chocolate Ferrero Rocher, unwrapped the foil around it with fumbling, unsteady fingers, and popped the crunchy dark ball in...
"Sometimes all it takes is a little faith, a little trust, and maybe some pixie dust!"
"This is the last time I go camping, I swear," Toby grumbled as he hiked through the thick undergrowth around his legs. His weekend hadn't been going quite the way he had intended. It all started early Friday morning upon...
"Lena learns a bit more about her mysterious genie..."
Lena thought about the note Arion had left her as she stood in the shower, letting the hot water cascade down her body. She washed her hair slowly, still savoring that morning-after tingle. She thought about what Arion had written...
"She came for a job, but got much more."
“I can type over 100 words per minute” she said, shifting in her chair. There is magic in her eyes, I thought. “I can file your papers, I'm good at short hand during business meetings.” Sparkling, dancing, teasing, tempting. Fascinating...
"A mysterious lady walks through the forest"
Mysterious lady walks through the morning glade, a veil of icy dew, to her feet adheres Birds alight on her hands, she is their chorus maid, her presence, it wakes the buck and deer Nymphs and Elves shy away, in...
"A pleasant evening at the tavern with Thakkor is interrupted by an attack in the night."
Alicia sat cross-legged beneath a cherry tree in the garden, blissfully savoring a few of the ripe fruits, plucked directly from the tree. As with the day before, her parents were simply too stunned by her sudden shift in behavior...
"Thakkor and Alicia reveal their feelings, and are joined at last."
Alicia awakened to the sound of birds singing and the scent of flowers on the wind. Her eyes fluttered open and she smiled as she beheld Thakkor asleep in the bed next to her. Her cheeks warmed a little as...
"Returning home one last time before beginning her new life with her love."
Alicia rode at Thakkor’s side down the hill, once more traveling on the well maintained roads of Freeland. After four days of easy riding, she and Thakkor were within a day’s ride of the city. As on their previous journey,...
"Sometimes destiny cannot be denied"
Even in hindsight I couldn’t be sure of the first time I saw her. Looking back, some of my memories seem like dreams; some of my dreams seem like memories, almost as if I came into being that day when...
"The daughter of a wizard and a faerie learns about her magical fairy inheritance."
Adele had a special relationship with Agronius the ghost. He liked her a lot, she could tell. She felt his presence often, floating beside her, whispering in her ear. He was the ghost of a long dead man, who in...