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May 5: Light [1951 words]

My betrothed woke me in the middle of the night, breaking into my poorly-pitched tent and flinging herself across my chest. I spluttered and swore breathlessly as she clutched at my pajama shirt and...

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May 6: Mavra [1038 words]

Little Key was humming as she made her way through the thickly-packed trees, old roots rising from dark soil to form a familiar path of obstacles. Mavra, Mavra, calling to the water, she sang under her...

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May 7: Technomancy [1819 words]

Heto forced a wide smile as he made his way through the dissipating crowd that had gathered to celebrate his graduation; his friends, peers, and professors streamed past him, many clapping him on the...

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May 8: Woodbaby [1120 words]

Hettie was twelve when she received the hand-made, fake-furred rod puppet as her birthday gift; her parents loved the Renaissance faires that blossomed like water lilies near the metropolitan oasis of...

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Of Wagons and Writing

As the looming silence may have indicated (to my likely-nonexistent audience), I have fallen off the story-wagon. On the day of the 9th, I found myself completely, wholly, and miserably resistant to...

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May 16: Architect [2556 words]

I was walking down the hallway in my office building, arms folded gentlemanly so that my hands were behind my back, when a hooligan stepped around the corner and punched me squarely in the jaw. I...

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May 27: Agent [3642 words]

I was a plant, of the non-veggie variety, and I was watching the worst possible thing happen while I was on the job. The world was coming apart around me, and the very thing I had been sent to monitor...

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September Goals

I really, really enjoyed StoryADay May. And I’m stoked to be back for September. But I gotta say, one story every day for a month wasn’t quiiite tenable for me. It’s still not, given work obligations...

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Sept 1: Art [881 words]

She swept a shed feather across the parchment, the thick texture of the handmade surface striping delicately with the last of the indigo paint. The layers of colors were subtle and deep: the yellowed...

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May 1: The Werewolf Eater [1219 words]

There is mist in my nose, and it fogs my lungs as I pause and listen for the umpteenth time, seeking a sign. But the forest around me is starkly, grimly silent, the press of moisture and shadow...

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