Category Archives: The Writing Life
Home By Sunset
“Home By Sunset” is the next RieTales story. It is a science fantasy story about a young girl with a mechanical horse living in a colony with a strict curfew. The title refers to trying to rush home to meet … Continue reading
The Head Above the Gate
The next RieTales story from Mocha Memoirs, The Head Above the Gate, is another of my fairy tale re-tellings. This time, with a Steampunk twist. The base story is The Goose-Girl. It was a lot of fun to update … Continue reading
Gremlins in the Workplace
Gremlins in the Workplace, our next entry in RieTales, from Mocha Memoirs Press, is a story of misconceptions, hasty conclusions, and workplace romance. It was one of several stories I originally started while I was working on the test floor … Continue reading
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Tagged gremlins, Gremlins in the Workplace, misconceptions, Mocha Memoirs Press, RieTales, short story
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Today’s Story is an Homage to Mark Twain
I wrote “The Duke, The Dauphin, and the Dirigible” originally for an anthology that was doing Steampunk riffs off of literary masterpieces. I didn’t get into the book, but this story was too good to just throw in the trunk–at … Continue reading
My Turn…
Today’s Dark Divination is my story “Broken Crystal.” It concerns a young Irish girl with a gift of The Sight trying to use it the best way she can with a crystal ball, and still appease her mother. I had a … Continue reading
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Tagged blog, blogging, crystal ball, Dark Divinations, horror, HorrorAddicts.net, psychic
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Ask Quick for Whom the Bell…Tinkles?
Today’s Dark Divinations story from Jon O’Bergh tells the tale of a physical medium who wakes up in a coffin. Luckily, it’s a safety coffin. But there has to be more to the story than that, right? Of course, there … Continue reading
Dark Divinations and the Reading of Entrails
Today’s story from Naching T. Kassa–who also edited this anthology for Horror Addicts.net–“They Wound Like Worms,” is in epistolary form (though, obviously, not a novel as discussed on that link.) It deals with the reading of entrails. This form of … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropomancy, Dark Divinations, epistolary, haruspex, horror, HorrorAddicts.net, Naching T. Kassa
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Rie Sheridan Rose 