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Katharine WiddowsKate Armentor Stories 04-07

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  • Library of Lives
  • Queen of the Hearth
  • Life is one big act of growing up
  • For After Your Little Blue Heart Explodes
  • Library of Lives

    “Collecting for the library! Collecting for the library!” shouted Gretham as the shire horses rounded the corner into the biggest slum in Pannegul. “Come on, don’t be shy, any story or talent accepted. Collecting for the library! Human books wanted!”Gretham lifted his scarf over his mouth and nose, but rotting market vegetables and rancid animal dung seeped through the fabric. His ears were assaulted by the chatter, the dogs barking, the slopping mud and the clanging of makeshift, metal doors.A small boy approached the cart with his hands held out. “Please Sir, will you take me? My mam passed ...AMVone door

    Queen of the Hearth

    Hestia awoke to the sound of ringing bells."Today's the Day" www.onedoor.ccshe thought as she danced to her wardrobe. From the very far left end of the closet she pulled out a purple-and-gold silk robe. She slid into the adorned coat like a snake who grew its new coat rather than shed for it. She made her way to the ruby-and-diamond studded mirror in the hall and set to work, combing her hair and applying her powders. Hestia made extra sure to align the brush carefully to her face, so that her face would look as smooth as a porcelain doll when she was done. She glanced to her right just in time to spot the ...AMVone door

    Life is one big act of growing up

    “Grow Up” he snarls through gritted teeth. Oh how these words rile her. She has no idea why but they never fail to get her back up. She leaps into attack mode the instant they are spoken, every single time, as if she feels threatened by them or under fire. “Not a cat in Hells chance” she replies scowling at him in annoyance “I have no intention of ever growing up” Thinking to herself she aims to stay young at heart and fun for the rest of her days no matter how old she gets. But is that truly why she refuses to grow up or deep down is it her fear of growing old and dying that drives this inne...AMVone door

    For After Your Little Blue Heart Explodes

    Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn,The sheep is in the meadow, the cow is in the corn,Where is that boy who looks after the sheep?“Lying in the cornfield,” he mumbles, head mashed against the stall door in the men’s room of the Brown Bear Bar & Grill, “fast asleep.”But the boy hadn’t been asleep, and Russell was forced to accept this fact the moment he found his son, Sawyer, sprawled face down in the spongy earth.It was 2034、 His wife Moni was in town getting her dirty-blonde hair permed and nails lacquered in creamsicle orange, and Russell had been calling his son’s name for almost half an ...AMVone door

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