fiction Archives - Quenby Olson

Here, Have a Fluffy Short Story

January 8, 2020

Fiction, Short Stories

The world is crap right now. So I’m going to throw this little story at you in the hopes it might make one of you smile. Warnings (if you’re used to some of my darker stuff): It is not fantasy. It is contemporary. It kinda sets up a potential for romance (in what a few…
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Roll Call!

January 11, 2018

Sci-fi, Short Stories

I haven’t updated here for quite some time. There are reasons for that. The 6yo daughter went through several months of treatment for Lyme Disease. I discovered I was pregnant, then immediately dove into 2 1/2 months of awful morning sickness. Then the holidays. Now the kids are passing a bug around from one to…
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An Update and a Short Story

June 29, 2017

Short Stories

I’ve had sick kids in the house for the last two weeks (one of those situations where, instead of them getting it all at once, they drag it out by only getting it one at a time) so I’m a bit brain dead at the moment. Lack of sleep, never-ending fetching of cups of juice,…
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Guest Post: Interview with Eleanor Melville, from Jude Knight’s A Raging Madness

May 14, 2017

guest post, historical

Today, I turn my blog over to historical romance author Jude Knight, who brings us an interview with her heroine. Readers, enjoy! My heroine is Eleanor Melville, widow of cavalry officer and baronet Captain Sir Gervase Melville. Ella was living at her husband’s country estate, nursing his elderly mother, until the dowager Lady Melville died…
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The Perils of Travel in Historical Fiction: A Guest Post by Caroline Warfield

April 24, 2017

Fiction, historical

Travel presents a challenge to any writer of historical fiction. I once asked my brother, a navy veteran, how long it would take to sail from Ostia to Genoa and he said, “That would depend on the ship, the tides, the winds, and the weather.” Not much help! Luckily there are sources that can give…
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Music in its Roar – A Short Story

April 21, 2017

Short Stories, writing

I intended to have this finished nearly two weeks ago. I also intended this to be a short-short story, maybe 2k words or less. And then it grew, and grew, and grew, and finally just tipped its toe past 6k words and here we are. If you’ve read any of my earlier short stories (Dust…
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Rooting for the Bad Guy

April 7, 2017

Fiction, The Firstborn, writing

Generally, my heroes are good guys, in the sense that they’ve always been good. They may be a bit stuck up when I pick up their story, or have made a few poor choices here and there (because no one in the real world ever does that… *shifty eyes*…) but for the most part, they’re…
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Taking the Plunge

April 5, 2017

Fiction, writing

Years ago (Ten? Eleven? I should know this, but my husband will be the first to tell you that I am terrible with dates) I made some friends. We met on an online forum that had been created to discuss our shared criticisms of a certain fantasy novel/series. But we didn’t really do much in…
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Monday, Another Short Story, also Monday. Always Monday.

March 27, 2017

Short Stories, Week In Review, writing

It was a busy week last week, a busier weekend, but I’ve come out of it with a child who is now six years old, a houseful of groceries, the new Beauty and the Beast movie watched and enjoyed, a lesson learned that I should not give my three-year-old son M&Ms at any movie theatre…
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“Mark and Seal”: A short story

March 19, 2017

Fiction, Short Stories, writing

It’s Sunday, the snow is melting, and my brain is busy mulling over the next scene in An Unpracticed Heart, my latest and main work-in-progress. I’ve not much more to report than that. The kids are bopping around, their antics spurred on by too much cabin fever. We’re having sloppy joes and cauliflower (What? I…
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