The Queen of the Snow Encounters the World_The Truth Will Out_Rooted to the Hill_The Truth Unspoken
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The Queen of the Snow Encounters the World
Roxana sat by the bedroom window and watched snowflakes as big and fluffy as cotton balls melt into the sidewalk. She pulled the blanket her mother had knit up around her shoulders like a cape, then dragged the ends behind her as she padded down the ground-floor apartment's hallway. "I want to go outside," she announced to her mother, who sat at the little table in the living room with a stack of bills. "It's too cold to go out right now," her mother said without looking up. "Besides, the steps are probably iced over, and I don’t want you to fall trying to get out. You already know we’re stayi...
The Truth Will Out
tw: sexual abuseHe hailed from a prominent family in Goa, the members of which were treated with a deference bordering almost on reverence. They had an ancestral house in a part of town which used to house the elite section of society. The family was well-connected and had relatives in various parts of the state. They were a family of several siblings, and were quite close knit, and so when he expressed a desire to seek his fortune abroad, it seemed inconceivable to them that he would wrench himself from the bosom of the family for the purpose. As he was determined on this course of action, th...
Rooted to the Hill
His breath billowed into the frosty air as the sled held him upright, its stern firmly planted beside him. He’d had to dig it out of the forgotten depths of the garage, but this is what she’d wanted, and what she wanted she always got. For forty seven years. He breathed out again as he flexed his fingers, sore from the sanding he’d had to do to get their wooden ship in shape to sail down the hill once again. Just one more of the million minor aches he’d suffered for her love.The city had just lifted its ban on sledding, skating, and fun. So here they were, he, the sled, and her love. Birds set...
The Truth Unspoken
In the Kingdom of Cazoo, nothing was fair and there was no justice. Merchants from other places would come here to sell illegal things and exorbitant stuff that would only cost a few dimes and nickels in other places. The priests would trick devoted people to donate a lot of money for the Church, but that money was never actually used for the expenditure on the repairs of the Church. Rich arrogant guys would convince pretty innowww.onedoor.cccent gals to come with them, only to have sex and then dumping those gals. And those cases were not even a quarter of how many cases that happened in this kingdom.As ...