I’m releasing my entire Loveless Letters short story series for you to read FREE here on my website 🥳🥳

I will continue to offer my books and stories on major platforms as I move forward in creating these works, but I’m also pretty over this whole thing where we hide all arts behind a paywall. (I’ve added free streaming of my music on my website for just that reason).

So, let’s start off with Once Upon a Portal!

What’s it about?

Welcome to Loveless Letters. A bookshop like no other. Where strange things happen if you’re part of the Loveless family (or if you just so happen to be watching from an unobserved place).

Once Upon a Portal is a quick read. This short story will introduce you to a world like no other. And hang on tight, because the adventures don’t end here.

Follow Lindsay, Sandra, and Curtis as they use powers passed down through generations to rip holes in the very fabric of reality.

Preview before reading:

Sandra McGinty sat in the same corner of Loveless Letters Bookstore every Friday afternoon, in the break of time she had between school letting out and her mom getting off the late shift. Every Friday she rushed with her overstuffed backpack to the store where she selected a Joanna Winslow fantasy novel from the middle shelf in the back corner. She ducked beneath the old wooden side table that served as an extra bookshelf, stuffed her bag behind her back, fixed the tablecloth to hide her feet, switched on the penlight she kept in her pocket and settled in to read.

No one noticed her as she entered. She had visited the bookstore every Friday for the entire six months since they’d moved to be closer to her mom’s job. She slipped past the checkout, undetected. She selected a book of the week, undetected. She sat and read under the table, undetected. And when her mom texted her that she was waiting outside, Sandra managed to unfold herself, replace the book on the shelf, and slip back out the front door without so much as a glance from anyone around her.

That was just how she lived. Undetected. And if she was honest, she was kind of starting to like it. It was how she got through school days without being bullied. Sure, no one asked her to hang out, but she didn’t mind. She had her imagination to keep her company. It was also how she was able to walk four city blocks from school to the bookstore without anyone commenting on how a tiny, teenage girl shouldn’t be allowed out by herself in the big city.

Although, she wouldn’t have minded so much to be noticed in the bookshop. At least, she wouldn’t mind if Lindsay Loveless noticed her. Lindsay was the shop owner’s daughter and an absolute beacon of light in the otherwise bland world Sandra knew. She was beautiful, ethereal, and seemed to love books almost as much as Sandra did. If only she could speak to her, just once – But, alas, Lindsay didn’t even turn her head whenever Sandra walked through the store.

Every Friday proceeded just like the last. She entered. She grabbed a book. She went unnoticed by Lindsay. She hid to escape free-reading detection. She read. She replaced the book. She left. Rinse and repeat.

Until Friday, October 13, 2023.
On this Friday, everything changed.
On this Friday, Sandra’s invisibility went to an entirely new level.