This is the twenty-first chapter of the serialization novel I am working on, The Magician – < click here to read the other chapters if you missed them or have no idea what this story is about. Retribution It was early the next morning when Vanessa woke to a notification on her phone. Freddy had […]
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Changing the belief to live the story
This past Sunday was Easter, the celebration of the resurrection of the Christian Lord. As a storyteller, I have always been fascinated with how the story on Saturday played out. On Friday, the hope that Jesus’ followers and disciples had was dead. Grief was heavy. A story that they had hoped would be everlasting had […]
Rabble-Rouser
For most of the Christian world, we are in the midst of what is known as Holy Week. It is the week that begins with Palm Sunday and culminates with Easter. It commemorates the last week in the life of Jesus. But the Holy Week depicted in the Bible wasn’t a celebration. It was a […]
Confessions (The Magician – Chapter Twenty)
This is the twentieth chapter of the serialization novel I am working on, The Magician – < click here to read the other chapters if you missed them or have no idea what this story is about. Confessions Vanessa stared out at the lake again as she pondered the situation, trying to understand her cousin’s […]
Beautiful messes
Many of us have been called labels instead of names. Self-centered. Narcissist. Radical. Socialist. Sinner. Dumb ass. Stupid. Selfish. Crazy. We carry these labels, shouldering them alongside the weight of all that we are, all that we need to do, all that we have to be. Sometimes, we carry so much weight and have so […]
The Fairy Garden – The Grove and Travelers
I love to write stories. I also love to decorate for the holidays. And now that I have my OWN little abode, I have the ability to go all out. I also will be in the process of turning my childhood dresser into a credenza to showcase my wonderful little villages (that’s a summer project […]
High-Rise (The Magician – Chapter Nineteen)
This is the nineteenth chapter of the serialization novel I am working on, The Magician – < click here to read the other chapters if you missed them or have no idea what this story is about. High-Rise Per her mother’s suggestion, Vanessa had spent the rest of Sunday afternoon holed up in her apartment, […]
Love thine enemy
It is super hard to be nice to people who are mean to us. Ask any person who works in customer service or retail and they will tell you so, since they are expected to be friendly even as anger and vitriol and snide comments are thrown their way. Between the entitlement stories and the […]
Blessed are….
In my fantastical adventurous Portals Series, there is an enemy to magic. It is not dark magic, for even sorcery has a place in my fictionalized world of portals and realms even as some look down their nose at it. It is rather an ideal, an entity called evil. Evil is twisted, created from the […]
Safehouse (The Magician – Chapter Eighteen)
This is the eighteenth chapter of the serialization novel I am working on, The Magician – < click here to read the other chapters if you missed them or have no idea what this story is about. Safehouse It took Vanessa a few hours to regroup and get herself back together. She had to chat […]
K. S. Wood Writes 