Fig Tree .

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“Mustard Seed” by Fig Tree .

Submitted to Contest #173

Warning: the trigger warnings contain spoilers. TW: Mental Health, Miscarriage, Physical Trauma, Slight Gore Suicide. In the dark, birdsong hours of the early morning in their bed, she could feel the baby blooming inside her. Sometimes, between the sleeping and the awake, her lids still listlessly shut and grasping the last gossamer tresses of dreams, she could feel him shifting inside the swollen curve of her belly, as truthful and foretold as starlight. She knew he was a boy, she read in the shadows and sunrays that he would be born in...

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