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I decided to participate in a Christmas anthology but I was stumped for ideas, today is deadline day and as usual I perform better under pressure, and so without further ado...here is my contribution to...

A Merry Minion Christmas: Assorted Tales from the Realm of the Dark Fairy Queen

To the top of the tree Genre: ?  Author/Pen Name: Marjie Myers ebook: Yes #AMMC-DFQ On the 1st December, the Hornby family get together and make Hornby senior’s stark home look like someone threw up Liberace’s wardrobe, and its a day he looks forward to. On the 2nd December the carefully place angel is always missing; turning up hidden in the branches or caught beneath the tree skirt. This year he decided to place a star on top instead and everyone wished him luck in keeping it there.
Chippy, the wooden toy soldier, had stood beneath the branches of every tree that Mr Hornby had, it was his job to make sure the baubles stayed sparkly and that the tinsel was hung evenly around the tree.

Chippy loved…

EnraptureAll three of us were bound together by that beyond our reach; I was cursed to spend eternity enraptured by him, he was cursed to spend eternity enraptured by her and she was cursed to spend eternity without rapture. Each of us driven by the desire to break the curse was prepared to do whatever it would take; we formed an alliance and searched every corner of our lands, following every clue, taking every mission, trying everything in search of the elusive cure. Each year that passed left a scar that wouldn’t heal, and it wasn’t long until we were nothing more than mercenaries, barely resembling those people we once were. We were all but resigned to our fate when we were summoned to the witch’s court and told of the cure, we only needed to do them one small favour and at last we would be free.I couldn’t breathe. Five Sentence Fiction is hosted by Lillie McFerrin, go check out the rest of the stories here.

Hello! So, here I am, another year older (as of yesterday) and another year wiser…*cough*splutter*guffaw*…anyway, its two weeks till nanowrimo starts and the story I thought I could use a couple of weeks ago has morphed from exciting to missable and thus I am back to the drawing board. Here is a paragraph or so of the old story....She stood shivering at the window, her feet rooted to the spot, her eyes widened to their maximum and her fingers gripping the sill. As she breathed, the window misted adding a natural eeriness to the image she watched before her, unsure if what she had seen could actually be considered real in the realms of reality, she gripped tighter as an expression of her thoughts.It was the screeching of the brakes that made the hairs on the back of her neck stand erect as the bus stopped at the roadside. A figure emerged from behind the large oak tree at the streets edge, the face hidden, and she raised a hand up to the window to support her as she peered closer. She …

Hello…are we still talking? I feel like the past few weeks I have been possessed by someone else and that’s why my blogging has gone by the wayside. I would like to say that its because I am reserving all my energies for Nanowrimo but that would just be an excuse. It is slightly true, I am reserving my energies for Nanowrimo and have been capturing images in my mind to use as inspiration and for a setting for the story. I haven’t drawn a mindmap, or wrote a list or ventured into any sort of planning but it is happening a little bit in my head. I have a vague setting, and a ‘feeling’ that I want to portray throughout the novel and hopefully pass on to the reader. I’m not sure how realistic a goal that is or how likely I am to achieve that but that’s the plan. Storywise…I think the main character will be a woman, that there will be dark undertones, and I think it will be another mystery style story. The story arc and actual idea of what will happen, what the characters are called or whe…