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Story Spotlight: “A Dismal Death” by Debbie Mumford

ByBlackbird Publishing

Somewhere in Virginia’s Mournful Mountains, fifty miles east of Boring and forty west of Tenebrous, sits a town called Dismal Notch—where the librarian talks to ghosts, the sheriff is a werewolf, and a long dead ancestor won’t stop meddling from beyond the grave. In Debbie Mumford’s “A Dismal Death,” a midnight haunting kicks off a…

Interview: Debbie Mumford on “The Solitary Sorceress”

ByBlackbird Publishing

“The Solitary Sorceress” by Debbie Mumford It’s been ten years since the Firestone turned Kaitlyn into a sorceress to be reckoned with. Since that fateful day, she’s been in seclusion, mastering herself as well as the artifact. But now her mentor and friend, Aelfric, has died and King Lorien has called her to court to…