What comes first?

April kicks off two separate short story writing competitions for me. So, I started going through my folder of ideas and characters and it struck me the varied ways stories come. It made me wonder. Which comes first for you, as an author? The story idea? Or the Characters? For me, it has come both …

Hard Times – Part 3

When we left Ella and her three children, a kindly neighbor had driven them to the doctor's office. Charlie, the baby, had eaten glass and was bleeding. Let's join them in the doctor's office. Ella ushered the two girls up the steps and through the wooden door ahead of her. A nurse dressed in a …