India Lee

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2022

Stories (2)

2 Stories

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“Children of Ceridwen” by India Lee

Submitted to Contest #135

Shutters beat against the panes, rattling the horn plates of the window. They glowed orange against the shutters, lit within by a fire falling and blazing with each gust of howling wind. Like cat's eyes in the night, they shone on Madwyn, watching her across the room where she huddled beside the gulping fire. She rubbed her stiff toes together through three layers of stockings. Her sewing needle trembled between neat stitches of embroidery. It dove into the pale cloth with her exhale and shook as her chest seized, unable to breathe in as she...

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“Erudition” by India Lee

Submitted to Contest #134

“I will take the tower,” Alvar Montalvo shouted over the courtyard below his stairway climb. Wooden cases swung stiffly in each hand while scrolls threatened to burst from the crates wedged between ribs and arms. “No other room shall do.” He stared at the blue trim of his shoes while his haste turned to huffing. The black satin of his doublet burned as he crossed out of the shade and into bleaching sunlight, high enough now that he could spy the steeples of Ronda over the tiles of his family's villa. “Won’t they look for you here...

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Author bio

Putting years of unconcentrated, slapdash history enthusiasm to some use.