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                                                                                   Of Sarah Ashwood
Short Work
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 “There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.”                                                                                                              —Zora Neale Hurston
            “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”  

                                                                                                                                                                                   —Robert Burton
              Sarah has a broad range of interest for fiction and non-fiction, both in reading and writing. As for fiction, fantasy, historical, and Inspirational are her favorite genres, and she’s completed novels in all three. Sarah enjoys reading about such fascinating peoples as ancient Romans, the Vikings, pirates, medieval knights, Scottish highlanders, western gunslingers, and—of course—the ladies in their lives. She also loves incorporating them into her own work; in time, her readers will doubtless encounter them all!  
Fiction

      Sarah’s fantasy short story, Sun Slayer, is based off the first fantasy poem she wrote, and shares the same title. While Sun Slayer the poem is featured in A Minstrel's Musings (see Books), Sun Slayer the story was published summer 2008 by Mindflights and is available here:       

 

 
      Sarah’s western-fantasy short story, Twenty-Two  , can be found in the Archives (October-December 2008 issue) of The Lorelei Signal. There’s also an author photo and bio on the Meet the Authors/Artists page.     

 

      Twenty-Two is now available in the latest Best Of anthology from The Lorelei Signal. Find this beautiful book here, on Amazon:



 

      Sarah’s fantasy flash fiction tale, Winged Midwives, is now online at Wanderings : 

 

     Check out The Digital Dragon where Sarah’s fantasy short story, Malapert's Mushroom , was featured in their debut issue.

 

    Closing out 2009 for The Digital Dragon was Sarah's fairytale short, The Wa  ry Wiza.

    Present Distress, a romantic flash exploring tough issues of forgivness, is now available at Eclctic Flash.

  Check out these two romantic flash stories, One Day and Helpfulness, both fun, sentimental, love stories now appearing at Abandoned Towers: 

  Northern Waters, Sarah's latest fantasy pub, is also appearing at AT:

 Lost, a romantic fantasy story, may now be heard on the unique website, Dunesteef Audio Fiction. Hear or download it for free.  

  
    
     

Non-Fiction
      Sarah’s second published piece was originally an essay written for a college class. Fantasy, an Enduring Trend? was published in the December 2007 online edition of Aoife’s Kiss.



      Appearing in the special anniversary December 2008 edition of New Myths magazine were two non-fiction articles: an essay comparing/contrasting The Lord of the Rings with fantasy author Terry Brooks’ first novel, The Sword of Shanara, and a book review of The Gypsy Morph, Mr. Brooks’ latest offering to the literary world. 

 

     Both pieces, as well as a fun author bio and photo, may be found here   at the New Myths' website.
Forthcoming
  
      An article on homeschooling, written from a definite Christian perspective, has been accepted by Homeschooling Today. This article, titled You're Homeschooling—Why? explores some of the various reasons parents today are choosing to homeschool. Look for it soon in their online edition.