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#FridayFlash – To Boldly Go

June 29, 2012 by Icy Sedgwick 19 Comments

The Captain sat at the desk in his quarters. He held his head in his hands, fingers raked into dark blond hair. Other men his age envied such thick, luxurious hair, but they didn’t have the technological advances of Starfleet at their disposal. The doors slid open with a hiss and a familiar figure strode […]

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#FridayFlash – If I Only Had A Heart

June 21, 2012 by Icy Sedgwick 21 Comments

A small black dog bounded along the grass verge towards a small wooden shack. Bushes crowded its four sides, and knee-high weeds clustered around the door. Dorothy hurried after the dog. “Toto, what have you found there?” The dog barked and sniffed at something just beyond the foliage. Dorothy looked at the thick bushes – […]

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#FridayFlash – Living Hell

June 15, 2012 by Icy Sedgwick 18 Comments

Agent Barnes picked his way through the detritus towards Special Agent Langley. Broken masonry and tattered advertisements littered the floor of the museum. Shattered glass lay in fragments between the corpses. “Yes, Barnes?” Langley didn’t even break her gaze to look at Barnes. Her keen brown eyes swept the scene, picking over the details as […]

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15 Habits – Update

June 12, 2012 by Icy Sedgwick 2 Comments

On Wednesday, I discussed the fact that I’m starting Jeff Goins’ 15 Habits for Great Writers series. Jeff’s running a post every week day for three weeks, and as I said I’d do periodic updates, that’s what this post is about! Day Two (Wednesday) of the series was all about belief, and I was supposed […]

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#FridayFlash – The Usurper

June 8, 2012 by Icy Sedgwick 23 Comments

Alicia stood in the living room, drawing patterns in the thick pile of the carpet with her toe. She’d only started dating Sean three weeks previously, and this was the first time she’d visited his house. On the way from the station, Sean confided that she was the first woman outside of his family to […]

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15 Habits of Great Writers

June 6, 2012 by Icy Sedgwick 5 Comments

Sometimes it’s easy to fall into the trap of saying “I’m a writer…but what now?” Well we all need to keep working on improving ourselves (see my post on continued professional development for writers) and I’ve decided to devote the next few weeks to working on Jeff Goins’ 15 Habits of Great Writers program. I […]

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Icy is a folklore blogger and host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast. She is based in the north east of England, where she was born and raised amid the folk tales and legends of Tyneside and Northumberland. Icy is fascinated by history, cinema, art, and the occult, and griffins will always be her favourite mythical beast. She also writes dark fantasy novellas, Gothic short stories and the occasional weird Western, and she holds a PhD in Film Studies!

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