Welcome. This is a collection of brief entertainments, some of which have appeared in anthologies. You will find short fiction, flash fiction, drabbles (100 word stories), and writing challenge pieces. Be sure to read "Wild Caving," "Global Warming," and "Advice for the Love Torn," which I think are my best. Feel free to vote or comment about your favorites, and to suggest ideas for future stories. I would love to hear from you.

Read, enjoy, laugh, cry and be inspired by the stories, poems and essays about empowered women who will show you what it means to be your own leading lady. Each chapter in this Anthology features the writing of one member of the LOL35 chat group, otherwise known as Ladies on Life. The Leading Ladies Anthology was inspired by Wattpad's #JustWriteIt challenge for May called #LeadingLady to celebrate mothers and the special women in our lives for Mother's Day on May 10th, 2015.

In love with a man who lusts for the fortune of her fiancé, a woman feigns delirium to escape into fantasy. The companion piece to Persephone, Hades reveals the perspective of the wife and what drove her to madness. https://www.wattpad.com/story/19677048-persephone

Local photographer Magnolia Barron, is just like any other woman residing in the great city of New Orleans. Beautiful, talented, caring, oh and a ghost whisperer. Magnolia is a photographer by day and ghost whisperer by night. With her two best friends, Theo and Whitney by her side life is somewhat grande, even with the occasionally chats with spirits. Theo and Magnolia meet a ghost named William, who desperately needs their help in finding out why he is dead. He is not the only new person who appears into Magnolia's life. Donovan Micheals is a private investigator from New York hired to track, find and bring Magnolia back to New York with him by her biological father. As soon as Magnolia and Donovan meet sparks fly instantly between them. With so many things happening at once in Magnolia's life, will she welcome the thought of love and a new man into her life? Will she follow Donovan back to New York to meet her real father? Does she finds out what happens to William? Magnolia soon uncovers secrets that are all tied to her, which include the living and the dead. **The Southern Girl Mysteries** ©Sarah Marshburn. All rights reserved.

Table of Contents Free Verse: Gypsy Acrostic-Etheree-Reverse Etheree: Tenderness Pantoum: Mystic Waters Conceit: He's Like a Shawl Haibun: Diamond Moon Refrain: Lushness so Lusted Haiku Trilogy: Hunters Anaphor: Out of the Rain Aliliteration: Savage Seasons Dectine Refrain: The Moon as Muse

In Thriller Suite -- appearing serially for the first time on Wattpad -- Margaret Atwood has gathered these new poems inspired by her long history as a reader of strange tales, from 19th century gothic classics to ghost stories to crime fiction and thrillers. Poems that cross thresholds...