I have finished and posted the fifth story! W00t!
It will be available for free here for a week, until the next short story goes up. Then it will be available for $.99 from the usual suspects, Smashwords, Amazon and B&N.
I started this story when I was living in New Orleans. I could never finish it: it was just some characters and an idea. It didn’t have a plot or legs of its own. I always liked it though, liked the characters. So I finally decided to finish it. Came up with a plot, rewrote the first 1500 words or so, threw out the rest and wrote it all out. It’s about 9300 words, a longish piece for me.
The short story takes place in the world of one of the novels I have to rewrite — “The Zydeco Queen and the Creole Fairy Courts.” When I finish that novel (March? April?) I’ll re-issue this story as a loss leader. We’ll then see how it goes.
As a child, Jolene learned she had a gift. She could see people’s fates: they appeared as a golden charm around the person’s neck. She didn’t want her gift, though. She just wanted a normal life—a job, a husband, and kids. Three years later, Jolene can’t get pregnant. What kind of strange beings in the creole fairy court must she deal with? What does she sacrifice to make her dreams come true?