<![CDATA[Sharon Dawn Selby - Flights of Fancy]]>

<![CDATA[Sharon Dawn Selby - Flights of Fancy]]>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 21:33:51 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[Mine Own]]>Mon, 28 Dec 2020 00:25:21 GMThttp://www.sharondawnselby.com/flights-of-fancy/mine-own

This story, set on the Isle of Skye, was picked up by the speculative fiction journal, Mythaxis Magazine. It delves into the power of childhood dreams to haunt us and hold us in thrall, years after we have been disabused of their veracity. The editors introduced the story, saying that it "underlines the traditional power of language and place, good manners, and proper introductions."

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]]><![CDATA[Predator and Prey]]>Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:33:25 GMThttp://www.sharondawnselby.com/flights-of-fancy/predator-and-prey

This story was written in response to an NYC Midnight short story competition. The unlikely prompt that I was given consisted of a genre (spy), character (model), and situation (job hunt). The following story, which contains my first attempt at writing an aikido technique, can be found by clicking here.

]]><![CDATA[Happily Ever After]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2020 15:36:44 GMThttp://www.sharondawnselby.com/flights-of-fancy/happily-ever-after

This playful twisting of the Cinderella story was inspired by The First Line literary magazine's summer 2020 prompt, "The Door was Locked." Fast-paced and boiling with repressed violence, this flash fiction story examines the dangers of looking to fairy godmothers for our happy-ever-afters. Click here to visit the full story.

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