Category: The Autumn Queen
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The Autumn Queen No. 27 – She Will Come To You Soon
This is #27 of an ongoing serial currently named The Autumn Queen. If you want to start from the beginning, go here. PREVIOUS * * * Days faded into strange blurs of moonlight and darkness, again and again, silverblue fading to black, brightening in a sliver, if brightening at all, or at times nearly ghostly,…
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The Autumn Queen No. 26 – Love and Music
This is #26 of The Autumn Queen. To start at the beginning, go here. PREVIOUS * * * Stunned, I sat still on the steed’s back and stared up into the moonlight that my brother had said was full of music. How she sang for him, whispered to him and told him secrets, he’d said…
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The Autumn Queen No. 25 – Escape
This is #25 of The Autumn Queen. To start at the beginning, go here. PREVIOUS * * * The borders were thick with trees, lush with rolling hills of grasses and flowers. I had not seen these things in decades, and my eyes tried to watch them, to devour them; I nearly left the lands…
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The Autumn Queen No. 24 – Short, Swift, and Without Hesitation
This is #24 of The Autumn Queen. To start at the beginning, go here. PREVIOUS * * * “How?” I cried. “How can this be?” I offered up my hands to Elias, trembling, awed and terrified. “Have you been reborn?” I breathed. “My brother, you–” “Shhh,” he whispered, shaking his head. He offered out his…
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The Autumn Queen No. 23 – Twenty Years Gone
This is #23 of The Autumn Queen. To start at the beginning, go here. PREVIOUS * * * I realized, at one point, the time that had passed, and wondered if I had been forgotten by all but the guards. Twenty years gone, and I had not seen the stars. When the guards came, when…