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Wintertale (A Short Story)
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deborahocarroll
Complete, First published Apr 20, 2018
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Banished from his own mansion, Kendric risks all by returning to see the woman he loves-when a man who is Kendric's brother in all but name discovers him. In a land breathing with magic and mystery, where snowflakes fall about a young man fleeing in the night from relentless pursuit . . . who is responsible for a murder? And who will pay for it?

A 3000-word short work of fantasy.
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Barry's life

59 parts Ongoing Mature

Two people fall in love in unlikely circumstances. They have a lot of psychological issues and mistrusts in the order of things to prevent them from finding themselves and each other. I am a reader of crime novels and hard science fiction almost exclusively, and yet this story, which I have been writing for a long time, is a love story, I can't explain it even to myself. The characters will have to work through hardship and evolve to be able to surrender to the magical things around them and the flow of the universe and the love of other people. This story still is a work in progress, it has holes and it is to be continued

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