Book Review – Night Gem – DNF

Night Gem by Erica Xenne has such an amazing book cover, how on earth could I turn down the opportunity to read this? I tried to read this book multiple time, I stopped and started, put it down, picked it back up, and would try again, but I could not finish this book.  The furthest […]

Book Review – The Hunchback

The Hunchback of Notre Dame has never been my favorite Disney move, nor has it ever been a book I was actually interested in reading (sorry Victor Hugo).   However, I love Regine Abel’s books, and I assumed her novel, The Hunchback, would be no different. As a side note, I think the hardest part about […]

My daydream affair with Sven

                I had a moment the other day.  One of those moments that when I first got married I naively thought “That won’t be me.”  Poor poor naïve Alicia.                  It was always kind of a joke growing up, and even now, well into adult hood.  That the woman fantasizes, day dreams, for a day […]

Writeober 2020 – Prompt 1 – Scroll

She held the scroll with trembling fingers. Her mother had told her this day would come. Had told her to be prepared to receive it. How could something so small, be so intimidating? Just simple brown parchment curled up, a blue was circle imprinted with the King’s crest holding it shut. “Casey, you have to […]