Tag Archives: fiction

When Evil Is Disinvited

Posted on November 23, 2024 by mitchteemley

Source: displate.com The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode click here. To read it from the start, click here. With the help of her brother Zack and her friend B’frona, Gina has climbed atop … Continue reading →

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Facing the Unbearable Now

Posted on November 16, 2024 by mitchteemley

Source: GoodFon.com The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode click here. To read it from the start, click here. Gina and her brother Zack were battling her monstrous nemesis when her sword simply disappeared. … Continue reading →

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Divine Delusions

Posted on October 19, 2024 by mitchteemley

Source: deviantart.com The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode click here. To read it from the start, click here. Entangled in the tentacles of a monstrous Questing Beast, Gina has cried out for help … Continue reading →

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An Angel of Light?

Posted on October 5, 2024 by mitchteemley

The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode click here. To read it from the start, click here. Gina Dore has finally encountered her Questing Beast, and it’s nothing like what she expected (warning: graphic imagery). … Continue reading →

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The Face of Evil

Posted on September 28, 2024 by mitchteemley

Source: hdwallbox.com The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode click here. To read it from the start, click here. After many desperate days, Gina, wielding a sword with a mind of its own, has … Continue reading →

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Coming Soon!

Posted on July 19, 2024 by mitchteemley

Dear friends: I’ve decided to make all of my “stuff”—books, movies, videos, scripts, music—available here at The Power of Story. My new store page will debut next week! Just one thing… I’m not sure what to call it. So I’m … Continue reading →

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On being a cardigan

Posted on April 24, 2024 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this week is Nora Edinger of JOY Journal. After a long career as a newswriter and occasional contributor to The Wasington Post, Nora is now an innkeeper and independent writer of both fiction and nonfiction. Her prose … Continue reading →

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Tips for Writers: Subconscious Mannerisms

Posted on August 24, 2023 by mitchteemley

My high school drama teacher had a quirky habit: first he’d pull on his nose, and then he’d push on it. One day, in the midst of a discussion about mannerisms, he told us where this habit came from: As … Continue reading →

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For Such a Time as This

Posted on March 12, 2022 by mitchteemley

Image by sassephoto The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode, click here. To read the entire novel, begin here. On a mountain in a world called Ismara, … Continue reading →

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Whispers of an Unimagined Future

Posted on January 1, 2022 by mitchteemley

Photo by Robert Lukeman The Wishing Map is a full-length fantasy that is being posted episodically at this site. To read the previous episode, click here. To read the entire novel, begin here. The mysterious Map their Aunt Aloysia had … Continue reading →

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