by Fiona Ross | Jun 26, 2017 | My Fiction
‘What you got Marsha?’ ‘Someone sent me a card. It’s mine. Get off.’ ‘Who’s it from?’ ‘Get off! Hey!’ ‘It’s blank.’ ‘It’s a Valentine, dummy.’ ‘You gotta boyfriend...
by Fiona Ross | Jun 26, 2017 | My Fiction
Two writer friends discuss the difficulties of getting published. “You need a good beginning.” “How about, It was a dark and stormy night?” “No! Cliché! Cliché! Cliché!” “You talk about clichés with those exclamation marks?...
by Fiona Ross | Oct 23, 2014 | My Fiction
The Day Death Wore Boots is an anthology of ghost stories is out from Alfie Dog Fiction, the first stop for short story downloads and other fiction. Sometimes Death Wears Satin Slippers The collection of twenty spine-chillers includes one of mine, The Bed. It is based...
by Fiona Ross | Jul 11, 2013 | My Fiction
Blogger Summer Circus Giveaway Hop Day 11 Coma Berenices The constellation Coma Berenices is hard to spot from Earth. It is a sprinkling of stars as faint as fairy dust, but the story behind it is wonderful. Queen Berenice was...
by Fiona Ross | Jul 10, 2013 | My Fiction, Whimsy
Blogger Summer Circus Giveaway HopDay 10Early AstronomersThe astronomical work of astronomers like Ptolemy was crucial to the Egyptian civilization because the resulting calendars enabled the priests to predict the flooding of the Nile, upon which the...
by Fiona Ross | Jul 7, 2013 | My Fiction
Day 7 The Greek myths are one of the themes in the story. Saffron’s birthday is 8th December and her star sign is Sagittarius, which could account for her boldness and tendency to adventure. The tale of Andromeda, the maiden chained to a rock as a sacrifice to a...
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