Dream Tales and Other Short Stories. Currently available on Amazon- https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Tales-Other-Short-Stories/dp/1732777454. Other options for ebooks on – https://books2read.c om/u/bWJLXW Dream Tales is a collection of twenty-three stories born in the quiet hours—when sleep opens the doors memory forgot, revealing a kaleidoscope of voices and imagined worlds. From a woman unraveling secrets inside a surreal New…
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Left Behind, circa 1950 ©Elsa Wolf
This short story helped me formulate aspects of my published novel. It was originally a version of the prologue, but I changed in the final version. Please enjoy this rendition and find my completed novel on Amazon: Buried Truths, A Daughter’s Tale…
Beneath the Rattling Roof
Our thirty-foot camper loomed in our rearview mirror. It creaked, swayed and groaned in the wind as we headed over the mountains of Utah toward Wyoming on the curving switchback roads. Majestic peaks, dusted with snow, soared in the distance, their silhouettes jagged against a sky that alternated between brooding gray and brilliant blue. On…
When The Silence Broke © Elsa Wolf Barnes
Forty years had passed since they’d split under unusual circumstances. The phone call Catlyn had received just yesterday felt ghostly. The voice on the other end of the line was his—except that didn’t make sense. Jody was dead. Or so she thought. After the call, Catlyn rifled through a box of mementos and found his…
A Night at Blob’s Park © Elsa Wolf
Having nothing better to do, Heidi tagged along with her parents to a cocktail party. It was the usual scene: clinking glasses, polite laughter, and clusters of people murmuring about business, politics, and the mundane dramas of upper crust society. She’d acquired a glass of red wine from the bar and swirled the contents around,…
My Buddy
My boy woke in the middle of the night. He rolled off his 3-inch-thick bed on the floor by mine. There he sprawled out on the wooden floor with his back legs spread out to the sides and whimpered until one of us woke. No hurry, he said, and appeared to smile up at us…
