Tuesday Tales is a weekly blog featuring diverse authors who post excerpts from their WIPs based on word and picture prompts. Our prompt today is beat. The snippet is from a paranormal romance currently being reworked and featuring the goddess Epona, as she is preparing for a lover’s tryst. Please visit the other fabulous authors… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Beat
Author: Flossie Benton Rogers
Paranormal romance author who loves to shake the edges of reality.
Mythic Monday: Lovers Abelard and Heloise
Lovers Abelard and Heloise Some historians maintain that the Middle Ages gave birth to the idea of romantic love. Historical figures and lovers Abelard and Heloise serve as icons of medieval romantic love. Theirs was not the distant infatuation of knight for unattainable lady, however, or dewy- eyed heroine for valiant hero. Rather, their love… Continue reading Mythic Monday: Lovers Abelard and Heloise
Vintage Friday: Be My Valentine 1958
Be My Valentine Do you recall the excitement back in elementary school of the annual valentine celebration? The idea was to exchange child-sized valentine cards with each person in your class. After your mother bought home a new package of cards for you, part of the fun was to choose a card for each of… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Be My Valentine 1958
Tuesday Tales: Writing Window
Tuesday Tales is a weekly blog featuring diverse authors who post excerpts from their WIPs based on word and picture prompts. Today we write from a photograph of a window. The snippet is from a paranormal vintage romance set in the 1950s featuring Hannah Ross as a young woman set on renovating a 1920s hotel.… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Window
Mythic Monday: Rune of the Day – Mannaz
RUNES Divination is a way to focus on what matters. It allows us to gain insight into the ripe possibilities of the moment and is best used as a type of meditative effort. With their symbolism and kinship with long ago Germanic cultures, runes are a fascinating method. From the bag of runes, we close… Continue reading Mythic Monday: Rune of the Day – Mannaz
Vintage Friday: Coca Cola Cake 1972
Welcome to the party! All the rage in the 1960s and 1970s, a coca cola cake is easy to make and includes a delicious icing that stiffens up and becomes candy-like as it sets. COCA COLA CAKE 2 cups plain flour 2 cups sugar 2 sticks butter 3 tablespoons cocoa 1 cup Coca Cola 1/2… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Coca Cola Cake 1972
Tuesday Tales: Writing Stolen
Welcome to Tuesday Tales, a weekly blog where diverse authors post excerpts from their WIPs based on word and picture prompts. Today our word prompt is stolen. The snippet is from a paranormal vintage romance set in the 1950s with heroine Hannah Ross and hero Nate Larkin. Please visit my talented colleagues at Tuesday Tales. Might as… Continue reading Tuesday Tales: Writing Stolen
Mythic Monday: Brigid’s Day
On the ever turning Wheel of the Year, today marks the halfway point between Winter Solstice and the onset of spring. The sun grows stronger, as the light outwits the darkness. The holy day is celebrated under various names, including Imbolc, St. Brigid’s Day, and Candlemas. In Gaelic cultures Imbolc is one of the cross-quarter… Continue reading Mythic Monday: Brigid’s Day
Vintage Friday: Baa Baa Black Sheep 1731
Do you have special fun rituals you participate in with your children, grandchildren, or any of the little ones in your life? My husband was a great one for shoulder rides and rib tickles. My mother loved to form a pea-shelling circle and relate old family stories. I had an uncle who carried around packs… Continue reading Vintage Friday: Baa Baa Black Sheep 1731
Mythic Monday: Mystical Delphi
What do you picture when you think of ancient Delphi in in the southern crags of Mount Parnassus in Greece? Golden haired Apollo battling the monstrous python? A devoted oracular priestess of Apollo in rapturous trance uttering cryptic prophecies? Delphi’s role as an important religious and mythological center originated long before Apollo’s glory in Greece.… Continue reading Mythic Monday: Mystical Delphi