House of Horror, Featured Writer, Me

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:

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
 

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