Hi, my name is Courtney, and I’m a carrot-buy-aholic.
I have a problem. I buy carrots
Flash Fiction Challenge: Continuing Someone Else’s Story, Part 5
Here’s my conclusion to Part 5 of author Chuck Wendig’s December flash fiction challenge. Bloodthirsty monsters, ESP, and saving a daughter. Come and read!
The Night Before Christmas, Oklahoma Style
We had an earthquake the night before Christmas, which of course is great cause for writing a poem based on an old favorite. : )
Flash Fiction Challenge: Continuing Someone Else’s Story, Part 4
Hile, inklings! Today I bring you my latest entry for author Chuck Wendig’s December Flash Fiction Challenge. Cats on a spaceship! What could go wrong?
Three-sentence horror story: SERVICE
Okay. OKAY. I know I said not all of my three-sentence fic would be horror. But I can’t help it! These three-sentence stories just lend themselves so ridiculously well to the genre! Like pumpkins to jack-o’-lanterns. Or cats to patches of sunlight. Or pancreatic juices into duodenums. Duodena. Whatever.
Anyway.
Here’s another three-sentence story. @BenHoward87 inspired it, because he asked for a bedtime story on Twitter the other night.
Yes. A bedtime story. And I came up with horror. Go figure.
ANYWAY.
Here ya go. Enjoyyyy…. 
SERVICE*
by Courtney Cantrell
She woke gasping from another nightmare of murder in the shower.
When she rushed into the bathroom to check, she sighed with relief.
The maid had cleaned up the blood again.
THE END
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*I’ve embellished the story a bit from the ~140-character original.
Cranberry Salsa with Cream Cheese Recipe
Here is the recipe for cranberry salsa that I make every holiday season. It’s my most-often requested dish. It’s…my only requested dish….
I repurposed a mutant pumpkin. Let me show you it.
I repurposed a Thanksgiving pumpkin and painted it for Christmas! Yay art. : )
Flash Fiction Challenge: Continuing Someone Else’s Story, Part 3
Another entry for author Chuck Wendig’s December Flash Fiction Challenge! This week’s story is witches, priests, reanimated mutant skeletons, and a mysterious figure in purple. Come and read!
Flash Fiction Challenge: Continuing Someone Else’s Story, Part 2
This is my entry for Part 2 of Chuck Wendig’s December flash fiction challenge. We’ve got a short story about a vampire with a stalker!
Concerning #Blacklist with James Spader
Also: SPOLIER, If You Haven’t Seen a Preview for Tonight’s Episode
Me: Honey, tonight’s “The Blacklist.” Are you excited?
Ed: I’m scared.
Me: Of what?
Ed: That one guy is gonna get hurt really bad.
Me: Who? Red?
Ed: Yeah. He’s gonna get hurt really bad. I saw a preview.
Me: Hey! Thanks for the spoiler! (she said, as though she didn’t already know.) ; )
Ed: It was a preview.
Me: So?! That doesn’t mean I saw it!
Ed: I can’t help it, it was a preview!
Me: What, so previews are sacred now?
Ed: Yes.
Me: I don’t remember reading that in my catechism.