6SS: With This Ring

Once again, I am way late putting this up, but better late than never, right? :) With This Ring is a short story about... Well, let me just give you the official blurb, shall I?

Changeling Orkney wakes in the arms of a beautiful woman with distant memories of rivers and burrows. He shrugs it all aside with the glorious discovery that he has proposed the woman, Lia - only he doesn't remember proposing at all, and the strange key in her study matches the ring on his finger.

Will Orkney remember who he is before it's too late?



With This Ring

The sun rose further and golden rays fell across her face, caramelising her skin and revealing copper highlights in her hair. Who was this beauty?

She opened her eyes.

Orkney gasped, shocked by their intense blueness. And he remembered.

A dimple sprang to life in Lia’s cheek. “Morning, sexy.”


Check out the rest of today's Six Sentence Sunday entries here, and once again, a million thanks to the organisers.

6SS: Sea Foam and Blood

Okay, I am way late getting this up this week, but better late than never, right? Right.

So, today's 6SS is from a short story of mine, Sea Foam and Blood. This was the first story I ever had published, and it won best in issue, which I was pretty excited about :o) It's a strange, sad little story about a terminally ill girl and the Pegasus myth (Pegasus was born of Medusa's blood spilled on the foam of the sea) come to life, and although it really is a sad story, it has an uplifting, bittersweet sort of ending. I'm really excited, too, that it's once more available, this time up on Smashwords. Huzzah!

Right. Onwards.

Image by ontzy

Sea Foam and Blood

Adelaide tried to sit up, but her mother’s insistent hands held her down. “Mum, honest, I’m fine.”
“How many fingers?”
“Two hundred.”
“Funny. Any blurriness of vision? Head pain? Dizziness? Blacking out?”
“No, no, no and no. I’m fine.”


Ah, but is she? That is the question, of course...