Now for something new and exciting!!!  Here is the beginning of my short story - 

“Be Careful What You Wish For”, © Lana Butler 2013

Beverly suspected she might be heading for trouble when she opened her mailbox and the brown paper parcel fell into her hands. Little did she know what kind of trouble. Although she had been expecting it, she never thought it would actually materialize. She hurried back into the house to unwrap her fateful parcel. The label on the package said Brighton’s School of Alchemy. There was no return address, no postmark, only her name staring up at her.

Her instructions were to check her mail-box at 12:23 on Saturday. A special delivery van would drop the parcel. It seemed a bit odd, the 12:23 timing, but she was so focused on the contents the timing did not matter. She checked every 10 minutes after 12, in case it came early. At 12:30, there it was. Funny, she didn’t see any van.

.... stay tuned for the continuing story of Beverly and her strange package..