Introduction
The two short stories I have for you here are, “Train Tracks,” and, “The Spider and the Fly.” An excerpt of “Train Tracks,” is previously published in my book, A Candle, a Goblet & a Crystal Ball: The Paintings and stories of K. E. Ward. This previous version of the story was set in Camden, New Jersey, and Boson, Massachusetts, but I changed the setting to somewhere close to home: Seattle, Washington. I am from the Pacific Northwest, especially Seattle. I changed the setting so that I could provide more realistic details in the body of my work. Though the storyline and some of the places are fictional, I have interwoven real places with fictional ones to create a twisted friendship between two teenaged girls.
“The Spider and the Fly,” is a genre I had never done before: horror. It is a very short story based upon the poem by Mary Howitt. In it we get a humorous look into the mind of a psychotic killer.
Enjoy reading these two very short stories.
-K. E. Ward