Tears of Adamas: A New Old-Fashion Fairy Tale Short Story (3 page)

Sunshine and Daisies

By Su Williams

Summers were hotter, and longer, back when her feet were smaller. Back when shoes weren’t required, and her daddy sent her to the corner gas station with
a dollar and an empty gas can, and she returned with gas and change. Those little feet were calloused against the gravel and sand, but she ran on tiptoes across the street on the crosswalk lines, and scaled from parking line to car shadow to keep from scorching her feet as she traversed the tar expanse of the parking lot. Sometimes, Mom gave her four bits (what kids today would call a quarter), and she, with her sister, would pad the two blocks on gritty sidewalks and try their acrobatic skills on the high curbs of retaining walls. Two little towheaded girls, obviously related, looked nearly like twins. The sun browned their skin and the asphalt scorched their feet; and the sweat that dewed their bodies only got worse when they got to the station because back then, they didn’t air condition such places. The pop machine in the corner hummed an enticing song, and their mouths watered in anticipation of the sweet bite of orange soda as it burned down their throats. The bottles rattled and clanked as the icy pop left the machine and another rolled into its place. It made their eyes water, that soda bite, but it was a welcomed pain. They stood in the sauna and shared the sweet nectar because they didn’t want to pay the five cent deposit to take the bottle off the premises. Once summer’s heat was quenched, they raced on blackened feet home—to Mom and Dad, and safety and love. And all that blackness and dirt ringed the tub that night before bed. Her soft pink toes slid beneath a light blanket that she’d kick off in her sleep, and Mom tucked her in, brushed still-damp hair from her eyes and kissed her dewy forehead.  Murmured prayers of God’s greatness and for His safety bid her into sleep. Sleep, where dreams were about sunshine and daisies, hot feet and cold pop, and skinned knees and singing songs to a beady-eyed spider.

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Dream Weaver
(Won the Bronze Medal in the Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards!)

Vampires sparkled through the spotlight; then the zombies shambled through. Now, it's time for a new immortal. Dream Weavers are an ancient, arcane and almost immortal, with the power to command memories and dreams.

Emari Sweet understands waking up in a cold sweat, heart pounding and screaming in fear. Night terrors plague her after the death of her parents and brutal assault. She slips ever farther into her own personal darkness.  But Dream Weaver Nickolas Benedetti can’t stand by and watch as each of her screams tears another piece of his heart.

Rock Star

Ever wanted to have a chart topper?! Reviewer called Rock Star by Su Williams ‘a solid gold hit!’

Emari lives the life of a rock star in an elaborate memory weave by Dream Weaver Sabre James; and faces her own mortality at the hands of Sabre's longtime nemesis bent on vengeance for the death of his beloved sister. Immortality and magic unearth treasures and secrets that some would rather keep buried. And the biggest secret of all could destroy everything.

Breaking Normal

Since her parents were killed in a crash, the only thing Em has wanted is a ‘normal’ life, but the magic and mayhem of  her new life has spiraled her entire world out of control. ‘Normal’ doesn’t even exist for her anymore.

Ms Williams is also planning more short stories in the Sunshine & Daisies anthology; a devolution zombie story called Devo; and a collaborative sci-fi/paranormal anthology with several international authors.

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