As Promised

As promised, here's an update and summary of my new short story, Middy's Touch (temporary title).

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Two lives. Two curses. One rose. A pure touch with a deadly cost...

Madeline Gail (Middy for short) is the nineteen-year-old daughter of a business obsessed father. Separated by hundreds of miles, a lifetime of bitterness and regret, Middy is determined to follow the path she has chosen for herself without his say or blessing. Trouble is never far behind free-spirited, independent Middy, though, and a nearly fatal accident brings Sam Gail back into Middy's life; but not in the way she hopes or expects. Misfortune doesn't cease there, when the Sidhe faeries deign to intervene and spare Middy, and they exact a price for their generous services - the only reliable tradition of an unreliable race.

Waking from a three day coma, horrified Middy soon discovers that she has been inflicted with a new and shocking disease: a curse the Sidhe call Órga Dearne - Golden Palm.

With the support, wit, and love of her two best friends and a wild-eyed young stranger with a secret of his own, Middy dares the unimaginable.

Spanning the secluded valleys of Colorado and the sweeping, verdant hills of Ireland, one girl's future depends on her journey's merit. And a haunting question remains to be answered: is pure, unselfish love more treacherous and beautiful than a Golden Touch?

Stay tuned for the first, official chapter of Middy's Touch!

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So there you have it! A description of my current project. Please be on the look-out for my new poem which will most likely be titled Subconscious Beauty and a post discussing/philosophizing on/about a passage from Pride and Prejudice...what I like to call "An Elizabeth Bennet Moment".

God bless & Sláinte!

~ Líadan Katy Glas