Trysts of Fate: August 2015

What is paranormal romance? It’s “fantasy/dark fantasy/horror ROMANCE stories, but we will not turn away a good sci-fi tale if the love story is compelling. …True romances emphasize powerful emotions. Stories must have the following: characters the reader cares about, plots and subplots, and settings that draw the reader into them.
stories

Brigade by Eryk Pruitt
What You Wish For by Eric Nash
Scarecrow by Vonnie Winslow Crist
The Urbane Fox by Jacey Bedford
Paddy McAloon and the Eighteenth Green by L. G. Wilson
The Unsettling Case of Herbert East—Regurgitator by James Park

poems

The Anniversary Dinner by Matthew Wilson
Already a Widow by Sandy DeLuca
My Song by Keith W. Sikora
Fabulous Pheasant Fessenjan by Gary Every
The Mayor and His Lover by Matthew Wilson
The Flirtation by Claire Smith
Wicked Women by Matthew Wilson
It Wasn’t of You by Annabelle Leeh
The Doomed Lovers by Ann Keith

illustrations

Widow by Sandy DeLuca