Tag: series

  • 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,…

  • The Autumn Queen No. 26 – Love and Music

    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…

  • The Autumn Queen No.  25 – Escape

    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…

  • The Autumn Queen No. 23  – Twenty Years Gone

    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…

  • The Autumn Queen No. 22  – I Will Not Call Her My Queen

    The Autumn Queen No. 22 – I Will Not Call Her My Queen

    This is #22 of The Autumn Queen. To start at the beginning, go here. PREVIOUS * * * I have not seen the moon in longer than I can comprehend. The red dust of the walls coats my skin. I have been injured and scarred over. The little finger on my left hand is bent…