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Rosalie Kempthorne

THE RIVERS HAVE FROZEN • by Rosalie Kempthorne

February 20, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

Hekl walked the long way up to Stolen Mount. Snow was thick on the ground today, a mist of it playing in the air. He sunk his head back into a fur-backed hood as he rested for a moment on… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Stories Rosalie Kempthorne

CONCEPTS OF HOME • by Rosalie Kempthorne

January 22, 2019Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

He built his first house for Sophia. The love of his life. The swan. The gliding angel whose voice was like silk. He built big, against an expansive canvas of hills and fields. A place a little way out of… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories death of a child, love, Rosalie Kempthorne

RAPUNZEL • by Rosalie Kempthorne

November 5, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

“Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair!” He stood at the bottom of the tower, tracking its stonework all the way up to the faint glow in a high window where he could see her silhouette moving against the light. “Rapunzel.… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Humour / Satire, Stories fairytales, Rapunzel, Rosalie Kempthorne, royalty

THE REALITY DEFENCE • by Rosalie Kempthorne

May 17, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

“Are you sure it’s the defence you want to go with?” her colleagues asked her. Nina leaned against her desk, chewing on that mangled pencil that always calmed her nerves before a big case. “I think so.” “When has that… Continue Reading →

Science Fiction, Stories courtrooms, gaming, lawyers, murder, Rosalie Kempthorne, virtual reality

DUCKPOND DAYS • by Rosalie Kempthorne

March 24, 2018Every Day Fiction Leave a Comment

They tell me off for her these days. Because she’s big for her age. Mirror-image, polar opposite of what my grandmother told my mother. I don’t overfeed her. She just is what she is. But I know what they mean.… Continue Reading →

Inspirational, Literary, Stories family, parenting, Rosalie Kempthorne

BIRTHDAY GIRL • by Rosalie Kempthorne

October 19, 2017Every Day Fiction 9 Comments

It’s close to ten years since I last saw him. And now, here he is, standing where I need to be standing. And there’s a part of me that wants to hide behind a tree, to wait until he’s gone.… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories death of a child, Rosalie Kempthorne

BOLTS AND BONES • by Rosalie Kempthorne

May 5, 2017Every Day Fiction 10 Comments

They were coming in, and it was well too late to stop them. Always was, wasn’t it? They swung their metal arms like pendulums, battering indiscriminately the doors, walls, windows. They were dull colossi: fifty-foot-high and steel plated; age-faded logos… Continue Reading →

Fantasy, Science Fiction, Stories magic, Rosalie Kempthorne

THE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS • by Rosalie Kempthorne

April 26, 2017Every Day Fiction 17 Comments

High society. Twenty-five floors high. And the floors are all glass, mirrored, swallowing the lights from a panoramic city, distorting them, condensing them, fanning them out in a rainbow across the expanse of some two hundred square feet. A few… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories divorce, glitterati, Rosalie Kempthorne

LIFE SONGS • by Rosalie Kempthorne

January 29, 2017Every Day Fiction 10 Comments

When she steps up there she forgets all about them — the audience, the nay-sayers, her father, her ex-husband — all she sees are the microphone and the lights. All she feels or thinks about is the music. And then,… Continue Reading →

Literary, Stories leaving a marriage, Rosalie Kempthorne, singers

STAN • by Rosalie Kempthorne

July 22, 2016Every Day Fiction 29 Comments

He always calls me on my birthday. My brother. Even though he’s been dead ten years. I wait, every year, not knowing what time of day he might call, or from what number. It’s always a different number. I imagine… Continue Reading →

Horror, Stories birthdays, death, Rosalie Kempthorne, siblings

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