Category Archives: The Writing Life

Today’s Story is an Homage to Mark Twain

Posted on June 4, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

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 →

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Drink My Soul…Please

Posted on June 3, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

  Did you ever have a dream spark a story? That’s what happened with my Apocalyptic science fiction story “Drink My Soul…Please.” I had a dream one night and the next morning three clear images stayed with me. One was … Continue reading →

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As Promised…More In-Depth Story Posts!

Posted on June 1, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

I had such a good time with the Dark Divinations series that I decided to give the same treatment to my own collection of stories, RieTales from Mocha Memoirs–which is an expanded version of the earlier collection RieVisions. (Yikes! That’s … Continue reading →

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My Turn…

Posted on May 22, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

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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Ask Quick for Whom the Bell…Tinkles?

Posted on May 18, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

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 →

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Dark Divinations Scries Again!

Posted on May 18, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

At the root, scrying covers a great many methods of divination, covering many of the others we have and will look at. It is less a defined form than some of the others we’ve studied, but a fascinating discipline. Today’s … Continue reading →

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Dark Divinations and the Reading of Entrails

Posted on May 16, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

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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Whatever Will Be, Will Be…or Will It?

Posted on May 15, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

Today’s fortune-telling from Dark Divinations explores echoes of the future seen through a scrying mirror in “The Pocket Watch.” Paired with the watch is a journal that reveals a sinister curse. We are not talking about the Future Echoes from … Continue reading →

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Dark Divinations and Stichomancy

Posted on May 14, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

Stichomancy, or Bibliomancy, is our next form of divination to discuss from Dark Divinations. This time, we feature not one but two stories, as both “Damnation in Venice” by Joe L. Murr and “Miss Mae’s Prayers” by H.R.R. Gorman deal … Continue reading →

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Dark Divinations and Dream Interpretation

Posted on May 13, 2020 by RieSheridanRose

Continuing with the theme of exploring the divination forms in the Dark Divinations anthology from Horror Addicts.net Press, today’s topic is the interpretation of dreams. I just read the story about dreams in the book, and it is chilling…well done, … Continue reading →

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