Description: #Audio. #FlashFic An old man helps a young family on a one-way trip. Excerpt: The woman holding the envelope of cash in both trembling hands can’t be more than sixteen. Maybe seventeen. But she has two little ones clinging to her cotton sk...

Description: #Audio. #FlashFic A safari to see hippogriffs goes horribly wrong. Excerpt: Later, as the hippogriffs circle closer to their open-sided buses, the kind you used to see laughing tourists riding on their oh-so-expensive photo-safaris,

Description: #Audio. #FlashFic Art and magic were more than his vocation. They were his life. Excerpt: An art appreciation seminar gave him his heroes. He fell in love with Escher’s skewed reality – Möbius stairs and the like – mixed math and art,

Description: #Audio. #FlashFic Her partner has been dead for three years, and yet, he’s never quite left her. Excerpt: At night, when I lie shivering in what was once our bed, but is now solely mine, is it your hands that pull the covers up,

Description: #Audio. The Dog Days are Coming! Excerpt: I’m participating in The Dog Days of Podcasting again this year. Links and References Dog Days of Podcasting website Credits: The Bathtub Mermaid: Tales from the Tub is written and produced by Meli...

Description: #Audio. Three stories by The Bathtub Mermaid: Take Back the Light, Waltzing in the Woods, and Daedalus, Diminished. Excerpt: And everyone knows that you shouldn’t wade while wearing velvet. It soaks up the water and drags you down to the b...

Description: #Audio. Many voices, one common wish for peace and social justice Excerpt: Fill the hearts of mankind with the fire of your love, and with the desire to ensure justice for all. Links and References The Dog Days of Advent Special thanks Nuc...

Description: #Audio. A mother finds solace in music during a delay at the airport. Excerpt: Kathleen stared up at the status board, and couldn’t help letting out a frustrated groan. Her flight had been delayed. Again.

Description: #Audio. Happy Hanukkah! It’s the second night of Hanukkah, so this is a Hanukkah story. Excerpt: She played the chord again, and saw the children gathered around her focus their attention. And why not?

Description: Sunday Brunch column for Modern Creative Life. An essay on the flames we light in winter. Excerpt: And yet, these winter holidays all have something in common as well – aside from the tendency to celebrate with incredibly delicious,