I've got a short story "Magic of the Loons" which has a magical realism or nature lore theme. The story is about 3000 words (12 pages). I can email you an MS Word .doc or docx file.
I have a few basic questions for this story:
1. Does the story work? Is it clear and make sense? 2. Do you like the characters or at least find them interesting to care about? 3. Is the opening hook and pace strong enough? 4. Do you find the ending satisfactory?
Author Bio: Paula Cappa is a published short story author, novelist, and freelance copy editor. Her short fiction has appeared in Whistling Shade Literary Journal, SmokeLong Quarterly, Every Day Fiction, Fiction365, Twilight Times Ezine, and in anthologies Human Writes Literary Journal, and Mystery Time. Cappa’s writing career began as a freelance journalist for newspapers in New York and Connecticut. Her novels include Night Sea Journey, A Tale of the Supernatural and The Dazzling Darkness, which won the Gothic Readers Book Club Choice Award for outstanding fiction in 2013. She writes a weekly blog, Reading Fiction,Tales of Terror, on her Web site
If you are interested, contact me by GoodReads Personal Message with your email address. Thanks so much!
I have a few basic questions for this story:
1. Does the story work? Is it clear and make sense?
2. Do you like the characters or at least find them interesting to care about?
3. Is the opening hook and pace strong enough?
4. Do you find the ending satisfactory?
Author Bio: Paula Cappa is a published short story author, novelist, and freelance copy editor. Her short fiction has appeared in Whistling Shade Literary Journal, SmokeLong Quarterly, Every Day Fiction, Fiction365, Twilight Times Ezine, and in anthologies Human Writes Literary Journal, and Mystery Time. Cappa’s writing career began as a freelance journalist for newspapers in New York and Connecticut. Her novels include Night Sea Journey, A Tale of the Supernatural and The Dazzling Darkness, which won the Gothic Readers Book Club Choice Award for outstanding fiction in 2013. She writes a weekly blog, Reading Fiction,Tales of Terror, on her Web site
If you are interested, contact me by GoodReads Personal Message with your email address. Thanks so much!
Paula Cappa