Rosalyn (9) invents a game with her 'friends' based around a Royal Court. Rosalyn will do anything to be Queen, but so will they.

What Happened At Hawthorne House

A short story about a something named 'Mallow' -- and no, she's not the flower. Flowers are kinder.

"Just to make sure that her message had been received and understood as intended, she raked the oak across its front, gouging in her warning."

Marrow For Mallow

A short story written at night in November, about a magpie and a statue in a secret garden.
"Baudelaire saw them sometimes, the mice and corvids alike, and preferred both over the magpie that had shown up in an ungainly flutter and refused to leave."

One For Sorrow, But Sorrow Sleeps

A 108-word piece of micro-fiction, based off the phrase 'a penny for your thoughts'.

Penny

A 104-word micro-fiction piece.

"The Toymaker sat in his workshop, gloved hands folded in his lap. His apron was heavy; the iron thimbles on his slack fingers scraping faintly against his lead lap."

Hadassah Shiradski

Books

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