Stories tagged “travelling”
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Pollyhaugh
Her knife-sharp little face creased in joy as her glassy bee-like wings sped her in circles, flaring her bright heliotropic hair out in a trail behind her. Pollyhaugh danced and twirled between the flakes of skirling snow, her tiny nakedness seemingly ...
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G'irl
G’irl stared out at the world through an almost permanent haze of contempt. He didn’t fit in anywhere. Not with the humans, and certainly not with his mothers people. Even his name was joke about his small stature! Only just eight feet tall...
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In Celebration of the Ethereal
When the entirety of one’s possessions fit in a box so small that Beyoncé Knowles wouldn’t have even bothered singing a song about it, it can be difficult to remember that it is not the physical that matters in this world but the ethereal ...
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Travelling Companions
5.7 cm long. .9 cm across. Brass, steel, and powder. I love you. I imbue you with power and with luck. You, me, and your 19 friends we’ll take on the world. Tiny soulless pillar of strength, you don’t feel fear or even worry. To you the odd...
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Love Is Life
Stark grey walls built from large stone blocks gave the castle a dreary, lonely look. With its large vacant windows, it looked like a skull that had been dropped by a careless graverobber. My grandson clapped his hands. “Who lives there?” I...