Hello Lovelies,

Do you like the photo? A few weeks ago, I looked out my office window from the 21st floor of my day job. Across the expanse was a bright blue Hi?! I settled in and waited for the next installment and was rewarded by the message in the image.

While I'll probably never know the story (is there a matching message on my building? nothing? who started it?), the message is a poignant reminder beautiful moments happen in real life.

No matter if you celebrate Valentine's Day or actively avoid it, I hope you are still able to find the magic around you.

Happy writing!

He found her on a god forsaken dessert planet
far from any map his mother had painstakingly drawn for
him.

She was in a cage.
The kind that said she was worth more alive than dead--
but only just.
He bought her
for a bargain. He asked, as he signed,
the papers if she was human.

Only half, the slave keeper said.
half demon, half human.
When the cage door opened, she
looked at him.

In all that was to follow
he would never know
if it was the human
or the devil
looking at him
--ready to devour him whole.