I absolutely LOVE connecting with readers! It’s so incredibly cool when you read my stories and are willing to talk with me and others about it. So I started a Facebook group called Ronda’s Readers. Join here. You’ll get stories, recipes, a chance to connect, visit, get stories, and so much more. It’s new, so come join the fun and liven up the place! Cheers to your #BlissfulLife! Ronda Del Boccio Award winning author, photographer and artist About Ronda Del Boccio Ronda Del Boccio is an award-winning and best selling author of both fiction and nonfiction. She has been... Read More

Welcome to another “flash fiction” story, a complete tale in u100 words or less.   If you want totry your hand, feel encouraged to come play! It’s one of the very best ways to improve your writing skills. lus, you get the satisfaction of comploeting a whole story in ot that much time. Boots and Baked Goods By Ronda Del boccio For Friday Fictioneers, 21 December, 2018 Word Count: 98 Genre: Mainstream/paranormal. No demons in this story, but it’s from the sequel to they All Died Smiling, a paranormal/urban fantasy novel. Note: In this story, Reluctant Demon Hunter Kassidy... Read More

Here’s this week’s flash fiction. It will take you a minute to read, and it’s a complete story. Gifts from the Garage By Ronda Del Boccio for Friday Fictioneers, 14 December, 2018 Word Count: 99 Genre: mainstream, but from the world of They All Died Smiling. You’re meeting more of Kassidy’s adoptive family today. JJ and Dave are her brothers in her heart, 2 of Aunt Beck & Uncle Walt’s 4 song. JJ and Dave are 2 of hte 4 cousins that were brothers to Kassidy growing up. Two of Aunt Beck’s boys. You met her in a previous story titled Phoeix Flowers. Copyright... Read More

A reviled gift. A hypnotic deception. A supernatural killing spree. Reporter Kassidy Spence just wants to go home after a busy week, but her intrusive gift awakens and turns her world inside out…again. Her power to see demons living inside people ripped her from all she holds dear once, and she refuses to use it ever again… …until her power could mean the difference between life and death. When Kassidy borrows the hottest new self-help book for women from a friend, her natural nosiness and her unwanted ability send her on a quest for the truth. Could the minister author... Read More

This is flash fiction, a 100-word story. In this week’s story, you’ll encounter young Russ and Uncle Walt,from last week’s story, “The New Girl,” and you meet the new girl herself,young Kassidy. In my paranormal Urban fantasy novel They All Died Smiling, from the Reluctant Demon Hunter series, Kassidy tells her roommate Julie about the time Russ ran away to go to the city. Here’s the flash fiction version of that tale.Ronda Del Boccio, author PHOTO PROMPT © Dawn M. Miller Little Rock By Ronda Del Boccio For FridayFictioneers, December 7, 2018 Genre: Mainstream... Read More

I’ve been working on a novel this month, yet I’ve loved writing these short stories. This is another one from the world of Kassidy Spence from the Reluctant Demon Hunter story. It’s yet another mundane tale…um…mainstream. Can you believe it? HA! It comes from right after Aunt Beck and Uncle Walt took her in, when she was 7. You meet Uncle Walt (dead before They All Died Smiling), and a young Russell Higgins. Here is the photo prompt. PHOTO PROMPT © Nick Allen …and here is the flash fiction story. The New Girl By Ronda Del Boccio for Friday Fictioneers... Read More

Welcome to another flash fiction story. That means super short. This one’s 98 words of a maximum 100 for Friday Fictioneers. Anyone’s welcome to come play. It’s fun to see what other authors do looking at the same photo for inspiration. I don’t get to read as many of the participants’ tales as I’d like, but I enhjoy what I read. This week, I once again borrowed Kassidy, hte spunky young widow from the paranormal/urban fantasy novel They All Died Smiling. Here is the photo prompt: PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson (Many thanks for the gracious loan of your... Read More

Here’s another flash fiction short story for you!  Here’s the Friday Fictioneers  photo prompt. PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields  Phoenix Flowers Genre: Mainstream (Wh-wh-whaaaaaat? I wrote a mundane story? Yup. Although, a paranormal culprit could be behind the fire that destroyed the town.) Word count: 100. “You can do this, Aunt Beck.” She slashed a tear from her eye. I squeezed her knee. “I know.” “Kass, I can’t do this.” She clutched the door handle. “Stay with me.” “I’ll stay here.” “Half the town’s gone.” Stubborn woman. “You... Read More

I keep wanting to participate in Friday Fictioneers then not managing to do it. So finally, Rochelle, here is another story. I’m guilty of an abundance of life. heehee. I’m sure everyone can relate. Friday Fictioneers is a weekly blog challenge in which you write a 100-word or less story based on a photo prompt. Here is this week’s PHOTO PROMPT © J.S. Brand And here is my story. The Bones of My Vision 92 words By Ronda Del Boccio (c) 2018 I sat in my circle of salty tears, seeking a vision on a moon-dark night. “What’s next?” I paced the circle for warmth and wisdom. “Yup,... Read More

Here is an excerpt from my work in progress (WIP) Hypnotic Deception: Reluctant Demon Hunter Series #2.   Kassidy Spence continues to struggle with her unwanted gift of demon huntng and her feelings about moving on after the death of her war hero husband. When the black FBI-issue car pulled up in front of the converted Victorian mansion Julie and I called home, I mustered the good manners to thank him for bringing me home. “Do you two rent this whole house?” He speaks. “Oh no, someone converted the old mansion into five apartments.” I pointed to the third floor. “We live in the... Read More