with wings - Stories

Sally and Tom won a stay in an expensive hotel. The hotel looks like a palace in a fantasy movie, but something's wrong there. Sally feels scared. A huge shadow is flying by, a bat of tremendous size. Something horrible happens.

Two short fairy tales, based on two short Welsh tales ("Kaddy's Luck" and "Ellen's Luck"). This is for the 2007 anthology theme "Fairy Tales"

Themed collections of tradional poetic forms.

Veritas is an angel, long banish by the hands of a human. Kain, a human with power who can't seem to keep a relationship because of it. Will things work this time, or will centuries of bitterness keep the Fallen at bay?

Elethiel, the tiny fairy, has left the fairy world in order to explore the human world. Elethiel got lost. Gabriel helps the fairy find its way back home.

This story was written as part of the Idioms Are Real! Challenge. After being given the idiom "when pigs fly" I read a piece about Dungeons & Dragons in one of the forums and this story was born.

Life repeats. Everyone lives then everyone dies. But what would you do, if you kept reviving?

What would you do if you had no choice in the matter?

And what would you do if someone just kept killing you without knowing how or why?
Follow me as you discover one of the darkest fallen angels of this, or any time…

Gabriel is Nephilim and is trying to make his way in the world. However, if he isn't careful he can easily become one of the Fallen. What is a Nephilim to do?

Two dragons suffering in love meet each other one day. This is the story of their trials together, with no guarantee that life will be easy.

One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl and four for a boy.

Five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told.

I am sure many of you, like me, learned this children's nursery rhyme about magpies. According to an old superstition, the number of magpies seen predicts whether you will have good or bad luck. Something I came across subsequently, was the existence of many variations on this rhyme, some more sinister than the children’s version.

One of those is incorporated into this short story about boyhood abuse.