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Winter Short Stories Every January, we promise ourselves we’ll become someone new. We buy the gym membership, the journal, the expensive hobby kit. But what if all those abandoned attempts weren’t failures? What if they were breadcrumbs leading you to who you were always meant to be? — The box was labeled Misc. Storage in her careful handwriting, but that… Continue reading The Archive of Almost
Morning After & Yule Celebration (FINALE) Welcome to the final installment! Content reminder: This finale contains some mature content (though less explicit than the last installment) and a whole lot of sapphic swooning. Last time, Vera and Fiona saved the Yule Hearth and then… well, they discovered that some kinds of magic don’t require ancient charms or GPS coordinates. Today,… Continue reading The Hearth Fire Affair: Spiced, Part 4
The Yule Celebration (FINALE) Welcome to the final installment! We’ve watched Vera and Fiona save the town’s magical Yule Hearth, survive a harrowing night trapped in the archives, and discover that sometimes the most powerful magic is the connection between two people who never expected to find each other. Today, we’re jumping ahead a few weeks to see how their… Continue reading The Hearth Fire Affair: Vanilla, Part 4
Winter Short Stories A century of domestic spite, a weeping kitchen floor, and the one contractor in Charleston who isn’t afraid of the dark. The kitchen floor was screaming again. Not a metaphorical house-settling-at-night wail, but the high, thin screech of over-stressed heart-pine being forced to hold a weight it didn’t recognize as life. Hillary adjusted her grip on the… Continue reading Structural Integrity
Into the Storm Hello again, dear readers! Content warning: This installment contains adult content. If that’s not your cup of tea, this is your exit point! The vanilla version is available on my page. We’re at the climax (ahem) of our story. Vera and Fiona have the coordinates they need to save the Yule Hearth, but first they have to… Continue reading The Hearth Fire Affair: Spiced, Part 3
Into the Storm Hello again, dear readers! We’re back with the third installment and things are heating up (ironically, just as our heroines are about to go out into a freezing storm). Last time, Vera successfully translated centuries-old coordinates into modern GPS data, proving that sometimes the most magical thing in the room is pure mathematical precision. Now she and… Continue reading The Hearth Fire Affair: Vanilla, Part 3
The Foundation Survey Welcome back, readers! Content reminder: This is the mature/explicit version of the story. Things are heating up considerably in this installment! When we left off, Vera and Fiona were trapped in a pitch-dark archive, pressed close together for warmth, and the tension between them was already thick enough to cut with a knife. Now they need to… Continue reading The Hearth Fire Affair: Spiced, Part 2
The Foundation Survey Welcome back, readers! When we left off, meticulous archivist Vera and wild-hearted witch Fiona were trapped in a pitch-dark archive during the worst storm of the season. The town’s magical Yule Hearth is failing, and they have until dawn to find the original construction plans and fix it. No pressure, right? In today’s installment, we’ll see what… Continue reading The Hearth Fire Affair: Vanilla, Part 2
When the Archive Door Exploded Happy holidays, readers! I’m excited to share a cozy (and steamy) winter romance that’s been percolating in my imagination. This is the story of Vera, a meticulous archivist who lives by rules and procedures, and Fiona, a wild-hearted witch who’s about to crash through more than just a locked door. **Content note:** This version is… Continue reading The Hearth Fire Affair: Spiced, Part 1
