Thorny Thursday — The Next Stage
Inspiration has lit a fire in my brain…
Creating these short stories for Thorny Thursday has been quite a treat for me, pulling me out of my comfort zone. So much so that I have decided to put a book of such stories together, including expanded versions of the ones posted here.
Consider these the appetizers before the feast:
Elias Monk & the Gift (now part of a series of events in the life of Elias Monk)
Pivotal Moment (now part of a series of events in the life of Elias Monk)
Drooping Roses (now expanded from 173 words to over 3600)
Another story, The Dark House, started as a short snippet for Thorny Thursday and turned into a longer story that teeters between this day and Macabre Monday. That’s how several of these have gone, especially A Pleasing Shape. But that’s how love goes—sometimes wonderful, sometimes horrific, but thankfully mostly the former. This realization also spurred me to think “needs to be a book!”
Thanks for reading here. Watch for the book portraying love’s thorns, and thanks, @Kathrine Elaine, for the inspiration! I will, of course, continue to promote the day as long as she cares to continue posting about it.
Keep being inspired! Keep writing! As “Auntie Mame” says, “Life’s a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.”
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If you’ve been enjoying my flash fiction on here, please check out my first book of short stories (a couple are actually novelette length), newly published by Wordwooze Publishing. (I even designed the cover.)
