Foxglove & Flame: Short Fiction & Essay Detours
Jessica SchmidtShort stories, tiny hauntings (flash fiction), and essay detours through folklore, fairy tales, ghosts, and the stories we need to survive.
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Two Ghosts and a Witch: A Tiny Haunting
Dear Reader,
I’m working on a longer story right now, but I needed a little break. Something small. Something cozy and strange to welcome the most sacred time of the year: Spooky Season.
As always, grief came along with me. It has a way o...
You Never Taught Me How to Carry the Dead
Dad and me, circa 1970’s something
It all goes back to a book. Or maybe it goes back to my dad dying. Or maybe it goes back much further than that. This is the trouble with magic. You can follow the breadcrumbs backward, but the trail even...
How Not To Fall In Love With a Ghost: A Field Guide
Dear Reader,
Here I am again, writing about ghosts.
When I was in fourth grade, I wrote a research paper titled Ghosts Do Exist. I received a good grade, though my teacher pointed out that my argument was ultimately impossible to prove be...
Come With Me to the Desert: Flash Fiction
Dear Reader,
I wrote this piece of flash fiction more than twenty years ago. Looking back through old work, I can draw a startling line between the stories I wrote before depression medication and the ones that came after. If you’ve ever...
Nowhere
Photo by Anderson Rian on Unsplash
Half in shadow, he shrugged on a shirt. “See,” he said. “I knew you’d like it.”
Still naked, I pulled the sheet with me as I stood. He saw the stain first, a burst of red on white cotton. He frowned.
“G...
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Writer (by night, product manager by day). Creator of Foxglove & Flame—dark, feminist fiction and twisted fairy tales. Midwest-born, tornado-obsessed, fueled by iced coffee. Living in the US with my husband and dog, Loki.
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