Tag: chapter
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Flashes
All the places she’s searched for him, she’s been alone. All the windows she’s climbed in, no analogue to greet her. All the phone numbers she’s called, there’s been no answer. Billions of other people walking the street and she cannot find herself to warn her, to tell her. Don’t let him. Don’t let him…
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Return 20
This is Part 20 in an ongoing serial. Visit the ‘Serials’ tab at the top of the page to read parts 1-19. * * * Time passed — slowly. Without Luroteo, a great and dismal sadness seemed to settle over the camp. It was not until Riesa began to round that we behaved as anything…
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Return 19
If this is your first time here, go up to the tab marked ‘Serials’ and begin at the beginning. This is Part 19 in a series — and while I’m sure it’s lovely on its own, it makes far more sense (ostensibly) when you’ve read parts 1-18 before it. * * * When we discovered…
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Return 16
Life moved on. We moved on. Families and children grew. Gardens and flocks thrived. Somehow, amidst the rubble of the world, we refugees made life. There were green things growing, pink babies squalling, clear water singing — life happened. It sprung forth with its own beauty. We were happy. Other than what we needed to…
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Part Eleven
While Medowin slept, and Laila kept house, Nine Trees went outside to the yard, to help with chores, a way to keep busy, and to help Laila, who still had her life to attend to, and had no intention of slacking off on the busy business of piemaking. He split wood, fed the chickens and…