by Ada Soto | Apr 1, 2012 | writing
For Six Sentence Sunday another snippet from Through the Dark Clouds my contribution to the Dreamspinner Press 2011 Holiday Anthology. A story of love and hope on Christmas Eve 1940. He pulled open the drawer of his bedside table wiggling it so it wouldn’t stick....
by Ada Soto | Mar 26, 2012 | writing
For Six Sentence Sunday a snippet from Through the Dark Clouds my contribution to the Dreamspinner Press 2011 Holiday Anthology. A story of love and hope on Christmas Eve 1940. John shut the door and balanced his dinner on the mess of papers covering his desk knowing...
by Ada Soto | Mar 12, 2012 | writing
This is part of a collection of yet to be publish short stories called Dusty Sheep and Black Dresses that I work on from time to time. This is from the story of Father Jacob who I love as a character, but I haven’t really managed to find his place in the over story....
by Ada Soto | Mar 5, 2012 | writing
This is my first offering to Six Sentence Sunday. (or really, really, really early on Monday morning from where I’m sitting) This is a segment from what I hope will be my third novel. I’m still having some problems with the second half of the second act (I trained as...
by Ada Soto | Oct 23, 2011 | cooking, writing
A few days ago I hand one of those strange middle of the night revelations. I realized that I had never baked a cake from scratch. I’ve done plenty of cakes off the back of a Betty Crocker box but never out of a cookbook. I should point out here that I actually worked...
by Ada Soto | Oct 20, 2011 | geekness, writing
Let’s get this out of the way right now. I am a nerd. I was raised by a trekkie. I was a trekkie and lurker simultaneously. By fifth grade my two favorite shows were The Prisoner and Red Dwarf. I was reading Bradbury when other girls were reading Babysitters Club. I...
