This flash fiction piece, "Something Sparked in Flame" won runner-up in a writing contest on Scribophile. Enjoy!
Author: Rachel Sandell
Rachel Sandell is a writer and editor from Washington State, where rainy days necessitate long books, hot chocolate, and plenty of magic. Though she specializes in speculative fiction and harbors a love for the dark and enchanting, she also dabbles in poetry and is the archive project coordinator for Fireweed: Poetry of Oregon. She is an MFA graduate from the Rainier Writing Workshop, and her short stories have appeared in SORTES magazine, Night Picnic Press, and Leading Edge magazine.
That Time I Wrote Alone in a Cabin
A little personal time can go a long way.
Blue, Cool Blue
This poem is a bit different than my others. For one thing, it's longer. For another, it's the result of a visual exercise during poetry class. Enjoy!
Life Update: I Moved!
A couple months without a post? Weird. I wonder why that is... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Valkyrie
Have you ever known someone who's just amazingly, unapologetically...themselves? Well, it feels a little something like this.