Belinda Baxter

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“Flirting With Death” by Belinda Baxter

Submitted to Contest #272

“Cora, RUN!” I wasn’t sure who shouted her name, but the sound seemed to galvanize the woman into action. Between the roar of the flames consuming the building, the incessant shrieking of the fire alarm, and the general calamity of people trying to escape, I was surprised she’d heard it at all.  I watched the shroud of slumber fall away from big hazel eyes in a spit second as she took in the scene, standing in her doorway in nothing but an oversized night shirt. Tendrils of brown hair escaped her messy sleep bun as she shoved her feet i...

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By day, Belinda (call me Bella) masquerades as an Social Media & Marketing Coordinator working in real estate with over 9 years of experience in the industry. But by night, she is an aspiring author and artist, enthusiastic home cook and baker, eclectic pagan witch, and intuitive divination practitioner with a penchant for pendulums, tarot decks, caffeine, and crafting. Bella originally hails from the Brooksville/Spring Hill/Weeki Wachee area in Florida, where they have actual mermaids. It explains her obsession with all things fantastical. Probably. She lives there with her mom and a pot-bellied pig named Freckles.