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eBook Category: Erotica/Fantasy
eBook Description: Welcome to Spellfire, Texas! Where unusual is the norm! When Spellfire was first created, none of us had any idea how big it would become, or how much it would grow and touch the hearts of our readers. Thanks to all you marvelous readers and the gifted imaginations of all Spellfire authors, it will continue to grow and become part of all of us for a long time. Enjoy the hauntings of things to come. Now? YOU asked for them and picked them, so here are the Readers' Choice Stories from the first four Spellfire digests. So? Read on if you dare! Readers Choice Winners! Sinful Sundaes Fairies & Cherries, Leigh Ellwood Spellfire Seasons A Stature For All Seasons, Mae Powers Spellfire Hearts Drifting Desires, Leanne Strange Spellfire Moons Moonshyne, Jewel Adams New Stories! Grolim, Bridghid Parkinson Nymph Gardens and Elfen Moons, Jewel Adams Shadows & Darkness, Mae Powers Plus: Jewel Adams, Beach Party Story, Moonshyne's Treasure Hunt Additional Bonus! The Official Compendium of Spellfire, Texas! A who's who, a what's what, and a were's where?

eBook Publisher: Midnight Showcase, Published: 2006
Fictionwise Release Date: November 2006

This eBook is part of the following series:

• Various Authors Midnight Showcase Series

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The shop has grown and improved since it opened over a hundred years ago. Although we get frequent visitors over the years, due to Spellfire's attractions, it seems they never fail to put in an appearance at Sins. Sometimes I wonder what it is about my shop that attracts everyone. Some of the regulars haven't changed their dispositions much over the years. I look over the growing Sunday crowd and see Perry Normil, our belligerent mayor for the last few terms, sitting awfully chummy with Frightful Frieda, the town's nastiest personality, who is espying the newcomer, but keeping up her 90-mile an hour conversation with Perry, the only one in town who has a bigger mouth than she does. They are both in their mid-thirties, and have developed an odd friendship ever since their perspective spouses ran off with each other. There's no telling whom Frieda Farthington will harm next. She doesn't like happy lovers and Perry is only too willing to help her out since he likes stirring up trouble. Problem is when you stand up to these two and their business allies, you have to watch your back. I'm sure if it weren't for the fact that I let them come in here occasionally and indulge their rotten sweet tooth's, they leave the Sinful Sundae Ice Cream Shoppe alone most of the time.

Heck, be right with you shortly, there's the manager of Havoc House Hotel wanting his weekly Hot Fudge Sundae, which he likes on Saturdays too, when he makes his pastry orders for Havoc House. If I weren't so fed up with men right now, and he wasn't my distant cousin, I'd go after that shape-shifting hunk. The only problem I see with that Demvir hottie is that he is too strung up about anyone having anything to do with Spell House. The family owners, of the two biggest hotels in town, have been feuding with each other personally and commercially for years. Especially as both hotels cater to the rich paranormal set from all over the world. As long as they keep the fight outside my shop I don't get involved.

Now what is that tall dude doing now. Looking over the ice cream cakes as if they were not my prize winning confections, sniffing his nose up at them like they were less than palatable. Hmm, some people have nerve. He's probably a tourist.

Oh there's Horrible Henry fixing to do some mischief. Well let him if that's the attitude that tourist is going to take about my goodies. Henry can be pretty mean at times, but sometimes he's a hoot to have around. Why, just last Monday, when the Mummy Gay Corp had their annual gala and parade, he started throwing marshmallows and syrup over the old chief mummy Shallab, just because Shallab wouldn't go to the fall festival shindig with him. Henry is an old swinger, his wife caught him swinging both ways one too many times. She buried him alive under the old Bred and Breakfast Inn--Boodoirs, over a century ago. He's still looking for a way to end his curse, but I doubt he wants it to end soon. The old geezer has too much fun causing mischief.

I can't believe Henry passed up dunking that big tourist's head into one of the frozen cakes. It's hard sometimes, over the din, not to tell him to get out of the doorway. Henry knows people want to sample and buy my specialty made treats. Oh good, Henry is going over to annoy Frieda and Perry. They are the only couple he hates worse than the middle-aged couple, Marion and Jeff, who runs the gift store Trinkets. Of course for an incorporeal person, Henry loves taking tea with them on Wednesdays when they have their Witch singles nightly gathering. Guess he feels like he's there to liven up the place. The Trinkets, across the street, comes in here very early to get my Mothy Molasses bars for their singles tea gathering. They also do a heck of a sale that day too. I sneak a way for an hour or so to see what magical new goodies they are selling.

Now that blasted tourist is looking at the regular pastry cabinet next to the front part of the serving counter. Some people can't make up their minds, just like Angus Sinclair, the man that owns Barnabas Bar. I guess he named it after that TV vamp he use to watch as a kid. Every time Angus comes in here for the Friday ice-cream flavor change-over, it seems his fairy friends have to tag along, just to see what brand of ice cream I'm buying or making. They all have such terrible sweet tooths and tempers to match. I may be a sorceress, but you don't mess around with the Fearsome Fairy pack. It just better not be them that has been delaying my deliveries of late. There's this one particular brand of Cherry ice cream I love and even trans-shifting it's not always available to me.

Now that can be an interesting weekday because that magical pack is almost as bad as Henry and his haunting friends who party in the different bars in town. Why even Mischief Mike's place, the seediest bar in town, has some of the slimiest, meanest and unusual creatures cavorting there a lot. Especially on Tuesdays, when they buy out almost all the sundae toppings, seems like the wildest parties are on Tuesdays. They get their thrills from doing all kinds of interesting things. So what if I've stopped in there a time or two to see what is going on. A gal's gotta know when to stock her store surplus and all.

"Course that's a tame set, sometimes, compared to the ghostly friends I have here on Thursdays when the town's ancient librarians come in for their Thursday ice cream meeting. These ghostly gals and guys love their goodies. Even Perry and Frieda won't mess with that bunch. The Dead Librarians Society knows more than anyone else what's gone on or is going on in this town, even more than my ex-mother-in-law. I wish my friend witch Lively wouldn't let her work at Boodoirs anymore. But that's an old story best left buried.

It's a wonder, that tourist finally settled down at a booth and ordered. I shouldn't be so curious about him, even though he does have a nice tush.

Out the bay windows at the front part of the shop, I see the Goblin and Gremlin construction crew pulling in at the Troll Bridge and Builder's Association. Now that's a tough set, but let me tell you they build buildings that last. You name it or want it made, and then they build it for you. All you have to do is have a little imagination and you can get anything you wanted created in this town. Course it's gonna cost a lot. I got my additions done because they can't resist the head waitress on Sunday and the cleavage she dishes up when they order my Strawberry Veinilla Specials. Gotta remind myself to give Harpy Collins a very big raise.

Well it's getting late now, and I only close the Ice Cream Shop on Sundays at midnight for a few hours. I'm thankful I have some good night managers and a great team of workers so I can get time off. However, Sunday night is the only time I get to myself, pretty much, and can get creative. I go upstairs at night to my mad scientist like cooking area and come up with all kinds of new concoctions, both spellishly great ice cream and pastry delights, along with new spells and magical potions I make up, which I sell to Trinkets and New Age Magic shops around the world.

Hey, a witch has gotta make a living, even while I'm having fun. I'll let you know more later, but time to run the lurkers out and get some my--time

Be sure to enjoy your time here at Spellfire and I know you will always come back.