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Syl LKas ReidvaSteven Kleckner Stories 04-07

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  • A Way Out
  • Of Falsehoods
  • Oak Girl
  • The Tail Of Aslaug
  • A Way Out

    She sat alone on her bed, the empty house quiet, listening.Her headphones continued to pump the music to her ears, hoping to infuse some vitality in her.She stared at the book, her blank eyes taking none of the words in.The hours passed, and she barely moved. The walls watched sadly. It had been 7 weeks since she had left the room for any business other than to use the restroom or to grab a bag of chips, cookies, anything that was available. She sat there daily, pretending to read a book, trying to write in her journal, but not inking a single word. Her phone beeped at times, adding unread mes...xtHone door

    Of Falsehoods

    She is all too familiar with what the legends make of her, with the heinous slander that monstrous men spewed to cover up their own rot. A shrewd and jealous temptress who loves nothing but power or, on the contrary, a guileless and powerless victim of the lustful old fool Merlin’s advances are her main depictions. Sometimes there is even the occasional casting of her as a motherly figure to Lancelot, the White Knight. Glaucia could bear being associated with the aforementioned lies, but she could find no shred of forgiveness for those painting her as his jailor or, by all the Gods, murderer. ...xtHone door

    Oak Girl

    They never meant to fall in love, the man and the Dryad. Dalyn had not even believed the stories of spirit women linked to a tree. Not just linked, but part of that tree. Some people claimed they amounted to the same thing as the tree’s soul.Dalyn could be called a free-spirited young lad. A friendly and well-liked man, he could have had his pick of any of several young lasses. But, his heart belonged to the forest. He enjoyed nothing so much as spending time in the woods, wandering further and further into its depths. He hunted the lesser game to keep their numbers in check. He identified ar...xtHone door

    The Tail Of Aslaug

    Once upon a time, there lived a hulder girl named Aslaug. Like all other hulders, Aslaug looked like a human from the front, but she had the tail of a cow and a large, gaping hole in her back like one would find in a hollow oak tree or a rotten log. Hulders were gifted with superhuman strength, shapeshifting abilities, and immunity to fire. They lived deep inside forests and mountains. As such, they were quite knowledgeable when it came to what grew in nature. They knew which berries were poisonous and which were www.onedoor.ccsafe to eat, they knew which herbs to use to treat ailments and illnesses, and t...xtHone door

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