3-Minute Fiction

Cathryn Grant

Novel Excerpt: The Woman In the Castle

Napa Valley, California Tess was waiting for Damien and me. She stood on the front patio of her palatial Mediterranean home wearing a...

Cathryn Grant

Novel excerpt: Don't Trust Her

2003 It proved her arrogance that she felt safe sitting beside a stream she couldn’t hear, reading a novel. Earphones blocked every...

Cathryn Grant

Novel Excerpt: The Favorite Child

Prologue Flames ripped across the night sky. They seemed driven to consume the surrounding atmosphere as completely as the pale green...

Cathryn Grant

Novel Excerpt: Best Friends Forever

Prologue November 12, 2010 The room was utterly dark. She liked it that way, for now. Even though her brain felt as if it were sloshing...

Cathryn Grant

3-Minute Fiction: Request Denied

The plastic card scraped across the formica counter as Wendy swept the crumbs from her bagel into her hand and sprinkled them into the...

Cathryn Grant

3-Minute Fiction: Immersion

Baptism in the ocean was their tradition. The practice both intrigued and terrified her. But the terror won out. Every time. She would...

Cathryn Grant

3-Minute Fiction: The Unlit Mirror

The restaurant didn’t have a bathroom of its own. Instead, the server had directed her outside and around the corner to an alley where a...