In Between

Part 1 of ? There’s nothing quite like sleeping on Strawberry Shortcake sheets in one’s childhood bed to make one question one’s life choices. 

Magic Verse

A bit of a foray into fiction. My kids and I came up with the idea and characters for this story together, and this is the first installment.

The Red Velvet Ghost, Part 2

Missed Part 1? Read it here.  Larietta was a member of the large, old family, though neither she nor any other could have told you how. She grew up largely by her own devices, shuffled between convents and basement kitchens and the streets. When she blossomed into womanhood her fortunes turned, for a blacksmith’s apprentice…

The Red Velvet Ghost

Once, long and far in the past, there was a very old and very large home that belonged to an even older and larger family. No one kept the home anymore; the last resident was only a fuzzy-edged memory, and he had been too lazy or too cowardly to leave it to any of his…