Star Crossed

By Carol Holland March

Women in Love

Stories of Love and Longing in the Southwest Desert
Two women

Two deserts.

Two sets of aching hearts.

Is love enough this time around?

Romantic stories of lesbian love in the magical land of the southwest. Where past and present mingle, ghosts loiter behind rocks, and sandstone cliffs reveal their secrets if you know how to listen. Women who have loved and lost have the chance to love again. But are they ready?

Book One of the Women in Love series by fantasy writer Carol Holland March.

The Stories

Fog - a grandmother Saguaro cactus whispers to a woman who lost her words when re-united with her ancient lover.

Walking with Georgia - two young lovers hike the Box Canyon trail at Ghost Ranch and encounter a mysterious figure who once lived there.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Carol Holland March
• Release date: Aug 31, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311790774

Carol Holland March

Carol Holland March lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she writes about the intersection of dreams, reality, and time. She sets her speculative fiction in locations where the veil is thinnest. She teaches classes on writing and creativity at the University of New Mexico and blogs at CarolHollandMarch.com.Her newest release is a nonfiction book, When Spirit Whispers, the first in a planned series on Healing from Trauma.

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Star Crossed

Carol Holland March

Star Crossed

Carol Holland March

Copyright © 2015 Carol Holland March

Published by Compass Rose Press

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and events are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales are entirely coincidental.

Fog originally appeared, in slightly different form, in Mirror Dance, 2011

Walking with Georgia originally appeared in Wilde Magazine, 2013

Dedication

For Georgia and all she has inspired

Contents

Fog

Walking with Georgia

A Note from the Author

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Fog

It started last summer, creeping in through open windows and invisible cracks in the baseboards. One day everything was clear; the next a veil of gray had descended around me. Sharp edges blurred. I stumbled into doorjambs.

As the days passed, the fog grew bolder, forming into tendrils like the long-fingered hands of invisible ghosts. We made no objection—the kind of mistake that can be made only once—and then the fog came in earnest, seizing our house in the Sonoran desert with as much vigor as if we lived in a seaside village.

We are down to basics. Do we disappear into the gray mist, or do