FIRE WALK ACCEPTED
My short story FIRE WALK, a macabre horror story, has been accepted into the Hawaii Writers Guild annual anthology; Latitudes. I’m so proud! I submitted a story last year but it didn’t get accepted so I am excited that they liked this one. Many in this writers group are professional writers, some are professors and former journalists too.
FIRE WALK began life as a writers prompt in an online class connected with my editing software. They give classes and lectures and have all sorts of opportunities to improve writing skills beside their editing software. Usually I don’t like writing to a prompt but I was empty of ideas at the time so decided to try it.
The first line was “My feet were on fire but I still kept walking.” Living in Hawaii, my mind flashed onto fire walking. But, as I am also a horror writer, I couldn’t just do a simple ritual piece. I had to add some eerie and macabre twists involving bodies and some butterfly hair barrettes. The end result got me into this literary magazine.
I don’t know the publication date, but you can be sure I will let you know.