Mary Louise Eklund

Tag: Rural Fantasy

  • Friday Fiction – Calling the Towers

    grandcanyon130 by Matthew Lee High on Flickr under the Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic Creative Commons License he so graciously granted. Click on the photo to see his photostream on Flickr. Thanks Matthew!
    grandcanyon130 by Matthew Lee High on Flickr under the Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic Creative Commons License he so graciously granted. Click on the photo to see his photostream on Flickr. Thanks Matthew!

    Welcome to Friday Fiction.  Yes I decided to change the name but not the tag.  This scene comes from that rural fiction work I introduced in my post on November 13th.  For those of you who are new – it’s an urban fiction work I set in a rural area.  The character Thea here in this scene is a witch, and has the position of Crone of the Appalachians.  Through some very unusual circumstances we won’t go into here she’s very young to hold that position.  However, she has been asked by a friend of the former crone to help with the investigation of a series of crimes.  Here she does some fancy spell casting to help her with that effort.  I hope you enjoy it!  The voices of other women in her head are the former crones’s spirits who have agreed to help her with this task and advise her.  Let me know what you think. (more…)

  • Fictional Fridays – Rural Fantasy – Campfire Scene

    Fire Fire Fire by Scott Swlgart
    Fire Fire Fire by Scott Swlgart who graciously shared the image of Flickr with the Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0 It used under that license. Click on the photo to be take to it and view more of Scott’s work.

    Today is an ending scene, almost an epilogue scene to a Rural Fantasy I have been tinkering with for years. It’s my take on Urban Fantasy but moved to a rural setting. This takes place in my home town. (more…)