Connections eMagazine May 2021 edition

Page 16

By Sylva Fae

A few months ago, author Tom Benson put out a challenge, to supply him with a writing prompt he could use to generate a short story for his upcoming anthology. The prompt was to be a dialogue between no more than two characters and to be no more than thirty words. I took up the challenge and Tom picked two of my prompts. This also gave me the privilege of being a guest author in the anthology. I wrote two stories for ‘Next Steps’ and I’m proud to share the pages with some of my favourite authors; Tom Benson, Rebecca Bryn, Lesley Hayes, Penny Luker and Frank Parker. Here is one of my contributions...

The Magic Box of Apples By Sylva Fae Annie sighed and paused as she heard the tapping from the front door. Nobody used the front, well, nobody who knew her…. Maybe there would be an occasional tap, just to let her know they were on their way round to the kitchen door, but nobody would expect to be let in the front. She listened for footsteps up the side path, but instead, the tapping became

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