falconesse's published ficlets
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Beyond the Snow
“Tell me,” said the sorcerer, “what do you see beyond the snow?”
His apprentice, ten summers old, squinched his eyes and huf…
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Awakening (Déjà Vu Challenge)
The dream goes like this: I wake up on the far side of midnight. It’s summer, heading towards fall, and the night is dead qui…
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Let Down Your Hair
The castle loomed, as castles are wont to do. Its towers scraped the bottom of the sky. Within, princesses slept on silken pi…
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Pomegranate
Persephone drags herself up endless stairs, her mother’s touch more hindrance than boon.
In her grief, Demeter had starved t…
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The Sound of Thunder Heard Remote
“It’s ending,” she said, stretching her hands to the sky, arching her back. One last look before everything went to hell.
He…
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