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  • Firefly Fish: Chapter 14

    Firefly Fish: Chapter 14

    “Tell me of your home.” I studied paper white skin at the edge of my cheek. Green flecks of plankton and salt drifted in swirls of ocean waters across Saeesar’s chest. The sun beat down on us as we floated over calm waves. His fins billowed out around him, soft and translucent like threadbare muslin.…

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  • Life of a Librarian: Chapter 11

    I dropped my bags next to the shoe rack when the door clicked behind us.  A sigh escaped me as I absorbed the gentle light of the setting sun in the courtyard.  This had to be one of the more beautiful times of day to see the apartment.

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  • The Fire in My Blood: Chapter 8

    My room was on the third floor of the north end of the old factory.  We kept guest rooms up on that floor for when we had Caeruleum visitors come in.  Rescues didn’t often get lodged in the factory until they had been vetted.  Maria Mater had made an exception for me with Sanctus.  Seeing…

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  • Skull Dansuer: Chapter 6

    Skull Dansuer: Chapter 6

    “If you aren’t gonna work, get out. Don’t come back!” Nina hissed at Farrow as she yanked away the platter in front of Rowan.

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  • Firefly Fish: Chapter 13

    Firefly Fish: Chapter 13

    “I heard Siren Voice so far out, I had to come investigate, Bet-tah,” Leviathan chuckled to itself. “And here I find you hiding a Kraken child. Who’s do you have? Cuttle? Lineolata, Mestus? Typica’s, mayhaps?”

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  • Skull Dansuer: Chapter 5

    The pub was a quiet, warm affair, more comfortable than I would have assumed on first passing the place. Rowan slid into a chair near to a smokeless fireplace and motioned me to the opposing overstuffed monstrosity masquerading as something akin to a loveseat.

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  • Firefly Fish: Chapter 12

    “The problem remains, though, even in accepting your dowry, that I don’t speak Antumnos, and I can’t use my gills. What is there for us if I have an aversion to the water?” I motioned to the horizon behind Saeesar. 

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  • The Fire in My Blood: Ch 6

    “Medicus! Got your man here,” I greeted as we entered the secondary building on our compound.  It had been a concrete block office at some point in it’s past.  Now it proved to be our hospital and infirmary.  Two patients at a time was it’s capacity.  If we had an all out war and enough…

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  • Skull Dansuer: Chapter 4

    Skull Dansuer: Chapter 4

    I hoped Rowan hadn’t heard the undignified squeak I made when I finally got those blasted briches down. Back in the castle, I had swapped tunics, but not the bottoms, whatever they were called. So, I hadn’t exactly had a moment to contend with whatever the good magician had blessed me with.

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  • Firefly Fish: Chapter 11

    Firefly Fish: Chapter 11

    The solution, for the moment, was a long abandoned dock a few miles from the bay. It had belonged to a private property. From the water edge, appearances were that the roof of the mansion had collapsed years ago. The beach receded into a cobbled-together mass of sandstone boulder and shrub brush before the boards…

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