Friday Free fiction: Ella and the Beast.
This is the first of my weekly free fiction series. Sometimes it will be a short story and sometimes it’ll be an excerpt. This weeks offering is an excerpt from Prunella Smith:Worlds Within Worlds, but like quite a few of the scenes in that book, it’s also a short story. Normally, the Friday Fiction will be available for one week only, but I’m going on holiday next week for a couple of weeks, so you’ll have longer to read it before I delete it and replace it with something else. My feet pounded the hard earth, jarring my bones, but I couldn’t stop. The monster closed in behind me, his breath coming in hard, loud pants. I tripped and stumbled over a fallen branch, only just saving myself from a fall. An evil chuckle reverberated through the darkening forest. ‘I’m going to get you, bitch.’ The chill in the beast’s voice…
Single short stories now available in all ebook formats
Reader’s favourites from my short story collection, ‘A Matter of Perception’ are now available as individual books on all ebook formats. The heartwarming magical realism tale of Norris and his Goddess, ‘A Hole in the Pavement’ is 99c, available here, and the poignant story of two women facing death in vastly different cultures and times yet linked via their dreams, ‘Not Me, It Can’t Be,’ is FREE and available here.