I'm back at it again with a novel in progress that's currently titled Kindled Roses. This is an excerpt from the very first chapter. Please let me know what you think in a comment!
My shoulders shook, and something on the desk moved. I looked up,
rubbing my eyes with my hands. Blurring tears pushed aside, I saw one of
the envelopes twitch, wrinkling up in on itself. White faded to the
color of the shadows beneath my bed, comforting and gray. Then, gray
darkened all the way to black and a tiny whiff of smoke struggled up
from the paper. A flickering glow no bigger than an ant formed on the
very edge of the corner, even as the paper crumpled into ash.
Fire. Warmth. Out of my control again, or exactly inside it. Sometimes it was so hard to tell.
©2017 Emily Blue
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