by Cherise Papa | Dec 28, 2022 | Fantasy, Flash Fiction
I can’t believe this is the last Wednesday Words of the year. May you have a wonderful New Years! She was thirteen when she decided to fly. Feathers sprouted from her arms and she took to the sky. Winds carried her, and the summer’s sun warmed her back. Finally...
by Cherise Papa | Dec 28, 2022 | Flash Fiction, Paranormal
This is the story for last week’s prompt. A full week late. I’m blaming my kids being off for Christmas break, but it probably just was my lacking organizational and prioritization skills. This story is a little longer than 250 words, ending just over 300....
by Cherise Papa | Dec 17, 2022 | Flash Fiction, Paranormal
My unfamiliar fangs split through my gums as I wander—seeking relief—in an endless line of parked cars. Distant music thrums through the air, speakers blasting and crackling. The opening of a new song, a promise of a moment to immortalize. The call is overwhelming,...
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...
by Cherise Papa | Nov 7, 2022 | Fantasy, Flash Fiction
Power builds in the air around me as sparks cut through the blue sky and the weakening barrier. “Get home while you still can, son,” Dad shouts, his robes swirling in the barrier’s winds. I won’t leave you. Unfortunately I can’t talk and maintain a support spell...
by Cherise Papa | Oct 12, 2022 | Fantasy, Flash Fiction
Someone once told me that when the night sky is filled with fire, dragons will return. I always thought it was a legend told in secret over campfires among unbelieving mages. But now fire rains in the sky. The mountain beyond the forest spews fire and lava and ash. I...
