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.

Lamb: A Review 

I’ve always been a bookworm. I don’t remember learning how to read; by the time I was 7 I was devouring adult-level books. At about 9 I started torturing my mother on a regular basis. It went something like this:  “I’ve read all the books in the house! Do we have any new ones? I…

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…