I won. I am so excited. Clouds have saturated my office and lifted me off my chair. I'm dancing, I'm singing, I'm thrilled. Just look at the cool award!
Here is what the judges, Ann Best and Nas Dean, both editors, had to say:
Here is what the judges, Ann Best and Nas Dean, both editors, had to say:
The Panettiere Cup by N. R. Williams
Romance
is paramount in this story and the author's skills as a published
fantasy writer are evident. The beginning of the story and when her
heroine takes flight to the old castle gave me chills. This story
has flawless descriptive passages, and credible characters. Aya’s the
aging heroine, loved by her husband but haunted by what might have been
if she had married the man her father chose for her. In this melancholy
frame of mind, she is “bewitched,” but in the end realizes what true
love really is. In a brief but beautiful ending that exhibits the
author’s excellent skill with dialogue, her loving husband rescues her
from her melancholy flight. I feel her joy as she realizes that love
comes from the ordinary moments a husband and wife share through the
years.
Would you like to read the story? If you haven't already done so, or if you'd like to read it again, here is the link.
As always, thank you for coming and I hope you'll leave a comment.
Nancy
Nancy
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