by Cherise Papa | Dec 9, 2022 | Fantasy, Flash Fiction
The fire alarm blares as cold water splashes my face. Well, at least the indoor rain is finally working. It took me too many midnight fires to perfect that spell. Now to find a way to prevent the hatchlings from lighting things on fire in the first place… I slowly...
by Cherise Papa | Dec 1, 2022 | Flash Fiction, Paranormal
I watch my dim reflection in the window shift continuously, wrinkles blinking in and out around my eyes. Laugh lines longer than my own but look familiar. Gray speckles my dark hair like children’s sparklers. It changes the fastest along a thin crack jutting from the...
by Cherise Papa | Nov 23, 2022 | Fantasy, Flash Fiction
The front door was ajar, and Milo clambered inside, searching for the egg. Distant chanting filled the brisk night air beyond his workshop, a warning that the mages knew of the dragon’s existence and craved its power. His dim magic illuminated amethyst debris...
by Cherise Papa | Nov 16, 2022 | Fantasy, Flash Fiction
Gracie rushed after the single gondola as a shadow of a man hefted the long rowing oar from the river of time. It arced over the gondola, water drops shimmering against the background oranges of fall. “Please, sir, I need to go back. I have to change everything!” Her...
by Cherise Papa | Nov 14, 2022 | Flash Fiction, Paranormal
We’re more than a few days late, but I can get this posted now that Fyrecon work is resting (at least for a day or so before we get back into more future planning!) When people see us together, it means I’m at work, fulfilling a deceased’s final wish. My magic...
