Tales of Imagination: Short Stories, #1
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Tales of Imagination
Explore the strange byways of imagination in this collection. An eclectic mix of science fiction, award winning romance, comedy, the past – the future, and the just plain weird.
A gourmand on death row – what did he do? What happened to Rudolph Senior? Wishes and a not very Christmassy present. Leave your current life for a desert town where no one knows your name. A desperate future soldier asks for a terrible gift. A deadly virtual reality. Poems on age, words and the thoughts of a woman. A preppers personal apocalypse. An evolutionary change for the better. A boy dreams of a very different life. A choice between immortality and love. An award-winning fractured fairy tale of Rapunzel.
Escape the everyday with twenty-six short stories, flash fictions and poems.
Cindy Tomamichel
Cindy Tomamichel is a multi-genre writer. Escape the everyday with the time travel action adventure series Druid’s Portal, or science fiction and fantasy stories. Discover worlds where the heroines don’t wait to be rescued, and the heroes earn that title the hard way. She is also the fiendish mind behind the empire of The Organized Author. She is bent on world domination ... hmm, sorry, did I say that out loud? ... making life easier for authors by sharing tips that can streamline their author platform. Are you a writer? Grab my free NaNoWriMo guide: NaNoWriMo Ready. Sign up to my newsletter via my website and receive a free short read. While there, check out my blog on world building for scifi, fantasy, and romance writers.
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Tales of Imagination - Cindy Tomamichel
Foreword from the author
Stir the subconscious of any writer and a pool of half formed ideas will overflow. With a bit of time these may grow into novels, but some need the sort sharp burst that is a flash fiction, short story or poem. Ideas are odd things, I’ve had full novels bloom from a one word suggestion, a novel that simply did not exist before. I still wonder where ideas come from, they seem to be fully formed, as it they were waiting for the right key to unlock them, bursting forth in a torrent of words and images that are forever free of the darkness from whence they came.
This collection is a set of stories and poems that reflect I write across genres, with sparks of science fiction fighting fantasy and stepping aside for romance. Some have been previously published, as noted at the end of each one.
While here, I’d like to thank all the writing groups that have provided the inspiration and random words that sparked these stories. Never underestimate the power of encouragement and support given to one who dreams.
CINDY TOMAMICHEL
What Comes Next?
To my delight the dinner trolley was wheeled in, covered in foil trays from the restaurant of my dear friend Rene. I knew Rene would not desert me in my hour of need. I placed the trays on my table with reverence, the escaping aromas sending ripples of pure pleasure through me.
Too many months of bland pap had whetted my appetite to a knife’s edge, while it whittled away at my waistline. My advertising billboard, Rene used to call my prominent stomach. Many years as a food critic had expanded it into gigantic proportions, almost as gigantic as my reputation. My job had been to eat, and I had been good at it. Oceans of cream, mountains of eggs, and battalions of animals had disappeared down my appreciative gullet, fuelling rhapsodies of praise for the chefs whose job it was to feed me. Woe betide the erring chef whose creations did not reach my lofty standards, as with a caustic pen I could destroy their careers. They deserved it, they who failed to offer adequate sacrifice to the shrine of La Cuisine, and to me, her most devoted worshipper.
What would be first? I lifted the cover on the first tray, and could not restrain the whimper of delight that escaped my lips. Truffles! Oh what bliss, an omelette, perfumed with the ugly gorgeous tasting fungi I adored. I sent some good wishes to my friend as I inhaled the delicate egg creation, crispy on the outside, delightfully tender and slightly runny on the inside. Just as Elizabeth David could have made.
I dabbed my lips with a coarse paper napkin and sighed with happiness.
What would come next? I could wait no longer, my denied appetite urged me on and I tore open the second tray. Escoffier to the rescue. Lobster thermidor, the white flesh dripped with lemon scented butter, a small sprig of parsley bringing a tear to my eye. I picked up the shell cracking tool and was soon delving into the divine depths of the noble crustacean.
I paused, wanting to savour the lingering taste of the lemony butter. If my wife could see me now. We had both been young and desperate for fame when we met. A catwalk model, she had always been particular about food. I thought her food obsession matched mine, for she knew to a calorie what each mouthful contained. Over time as my corpulence grew, so too did her obsession. At home I got used to salads without dressing, to bits of un-sauced meat reduced to protein portions, and my beloved pastas and risottos were only mentioned with a hiss of horror at their carbohydrate count. I ate the dry tasteless food because I knew she did it out of love for me.