A recent ad on Craigslist went something like this: “Ugly Betty, our rescue chick, finally showed its true sexuality…..Now Handsome Benny has a new dilemma. Its new foster parents have decided to split the bedsheets (divorce) and have decided not to bring him home to a hostile environment. Now I’m begging for new foster parents…
People sometimes ask me, “Where do you get your ideas?” That’s a valid question–I’d sure like to know where George R.R. Martin gets his! But for me, the answer is, “I keep my eyes and ears open, and then this thing happens in my head, and then x, y, and z get tossed in, and…
An old proverb that no Native American person probably ever said goes something like, “You can’t judge another man unless you walk a mile in his moccasins.” That may be true in life … but for me, it’s certainly true when I’m writing. Because I’m a costumer. Several years ago I was researching a Regency…
As previously reported, Ugly Betty the chick has become Handsome Benny the rooster … and therein lies the problem. You see, DH doesn’t like roosters—not their crowing, not their aggressiveness, not their love life. And yet, he rescued Benny and brought him home. Can you give away a creature that you rescued, or are you…
Copyright 2011 by Shelley Adina. All rights reserved. Chapter 1 London, August 1889 They were too small to be airships, and too ephemeral to be bombs. Glowing with a gentle orange light, each the size of a lantern, they floated up into the night sky powered by a single candle and the most delicate of…