SapphirePhelan edited the summary of The World Outside the Window 3 weeks ago.
"The World Outside the Window"
by 19 authors in the Amazon Shorts Program. The anthology consists of 19 adult fiction stories by 19 authors, many of them published novelists. The stories run the gamut of fiction, from romance to horror, from suspense to sci-fi and fantasy.
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Imagine, if you will, a building of unknown origin. A building in which there are many rooms, each with a window that looks out upon a courtyard and a scene beyond.
In each room a person sits, staring out the window at the same people and objects that everyone else sees from their windows. Yet, as we tell our stories of what we see, we learn a basic truth of the universe. We learn that even though our eyes survey identical scenes, our minds take us to places that only we as individuals know and remind us of stories that only we can tell.
Outside the window we see a winding country lane leading into the distant countryside. We see two boys, perhaps 10 or 12 years old, tossing a baseball to each other. A girl of maybe 7 or 8 swings on a schoolyard swing set, while two lovers walk hand in hand along the side of the road. A ramshackle old mailbox sits on a slanted post, and nearby there is an old car, possibly from the ‘50s - appearing to be in good running condition. We see a church steeple and an older woman walking along the side of the road, seemingly headed for the church. A young soldier stands still, his face is pensive, and it is plain to see that he has much on his mind. Two men are in a heated discussion about something, but from inside our window we can only guess at what is causing their turmoil. Nearby a beautiful girl sits on a park bench, weeping. An old dog lies on the grass, peaceful and serene, watching a puppy frolicking through a flower bed. As day changes to evening and then to night, we see a twinkle in the sky. A falling star, perhaps a starship?
Yes, the characters are there for us, waiting, making no comments that will give us any clue as to who they are or what they may be doing. They are waiting for us to cast them in their roles, to give them direction. We can use one or all of them. We can make them walk down the country lane, drive the car, or follow along behind the woman as she heads for the church. It is our world to create, and we have total control of everything in it. Whatever happens, we make it happen. Loves, lies, war or peace, death or life, shackled to earth or bound for the stars, it is in our hands to decide their fate.
We sit at the window, taking in the complexity of the scene before us and after a few hours of pondering, we sit back and relax as we use our mind’s eye to peer into a world that we will shape into anything we wish it to be.
Slowly, we begin. We pick up our pens and write our stories of the world outside the window.
SapphirePhelan edited the description of Being Familiar With a Witch 3 weeks ago.
Epic Awards 2010 Finalist in the Erotic paranormal romance category.
SapphirePhelan edited the description of Travel Guide To The Haunted Mid-Atlantic Region Saturday, November 14 2009.
ATravel Guide to the Haunted Mid-Atlantic Region is a new collection of haunted tales set in the Mid-Atlantic region. From Mid-Atlantic region.horror professionals and edited by Elizabeth Blue, Jacob Haddon, and Sarah Schoenfeld.
Contents:
* Pennsylvania
o Eminent Domain - Jack Hillman
o SnakeBit - Ralph Bieber
o The Intruder - Barton Paul Levenson
o My Sweetness - T.E. Lyons
o If Wishes Lived in Trailer Parks - D.P. Roseberry
o Slither - William D. Carl
o More Than This - William O'Donnell
* New Jersey
o Dreams of Love - Dan Foley
o A Friend of the Family - Diane Arrelle
o French Street Cemetery (photograph) - Lauren Curtis
* Maryland
o Balmer Merlin (poem) - Stephen D. Rogers
o Another Day - Justin Chiang
o Losing Dreams and Finding Others - John Weagly
o Plagued - Pamela K. Kinney
o Feast of Crows (poem) - John Hayes
* Delaware
o Virginia - Elizabeth Massie
o Now I'm with the Invalids - Elizabeth Massie
o Chopins Back Door Man - Ed Lynskey
o Story Book Land - Valerie Thorpe & Diane Giles
o Upperville - L. Marie Wood
o Patchwork - John Bushore
o The Fifth Card - Pasquale J. Morrone
o The Killing Floor Effect - Meghan Jurado
* Washington D.C.
o Honey, I'm Home - A.B. Wallace
o Solidity - Will Ludwigsen
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SapphirePhelan edited the contributors of Unwitting Sacrifice Sunday, August 30 2009.
SapphirePhelan edited the summary of Unwitting Sacrifice Sunday, August 30 2009.
What do you get when you blend H. P. Lovecraft's Old Ones with an erotic, but scary story? The erotic Lovecraftian horror novella, UNWITTING SACRIFICE.
Lisa Selvey moved to Necro Bay, just on the outskirts of Chesapeake, Virginia. She moved there because of its reputation for peace and quiet. To free herself of her nightmares. But her nightmares were just beginning. . .
Necro Bay was just your average American seaside town. The house she bought a normal home. The handsome man, Jacob Lindan that she met, nothing more than a sexually attractive man that whose touch made her mad with desire. Things nightmarishly changed and made her wonder if she wasn't going mad. Even worse, it made her wonder if something lurked in the shadows.
SapphirePhelan edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of Unwitting Sacrifice Sunday, August 30 2009.
SapphirePhelan edited the summary of Unwitting Sacrifice Sunday, August 30 2009.
Lisa Selvey moved to Necro Bay, just on the outskirts of Chesapeake, Virginia. She moved there because of its reputation for peace and quiet. To free herself of her nightmares. But her nightmares were just beginning. . .
Necro Bay was just your average American seaside town. The house she bought a normal home. The handsome man, Jacob Lindan that she met, nothing more than a sexually attractive man that whose touch made her mad with desire. Things nightmarishly changed and made her wonder if she wasn't going mad. Even worse, it made her wonder if something lurked in the shadows.
SapphirePhelan edited the description of Beyond The Four Walls Sunday, August 30 2009.
Collection of four ghostly fiction stories by author Pmela K. Kinney.
SapphirePhelan edited the summary of Beyond The Four Walls Sunday, August 30 2009.
Ghosts haunt more than houses and aren’t always bound by four walls as proven by the four stories in Beyond Four Walls. In “Spectre Dreams and Visitations”, Sherry buys an old book of ghost stories at a yard sale for some good reading and finds that it results in something far more than she can handle or even wants. And haunting proves to be a dusty business for one reporter staying the last night of a reputedly haunted movie theater before demolition in “Gray Dust.” “Hard Drive Haunting” reveals to a young woman that surfing the Internet can do even more terrifying damage to her life than a computer virus. And in the last ghostly tale, “Call in the Night”, Sandy finds that the call she’s been receiving each night is definitely more than a wrong number.
