Susan lives in London. She recently gained a creative writing degree and has published her first book of short stories "A Jumble of Good Intentions." Her story, "Harnessing the Unicorn," was selected a finalist in Short Edition's Button Fiction, spring 2019 contest.

I reached for the control strip and tapped the edit icon. Immediately, the scene changed to a woodland, dark fir trees casting long shadows beneath a heavy winter sky. For background effect, I added the sound of a river, imagining the ribbon of icy liquid tumbling down waterfalls as it rushed to the sea. I spread my fingers on the screen to enlarge the old-fashioned cottage slightly and set it in the foreground. The next edit created smoke, rising slowly into the still air from a jumble of chimneys. Another tap on the insert key and I brought up a basic quadruped shape, colouring it brown and

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