Lady Libris

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Feb, 2022

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“The Agony and the Ecstasy of Father Ferro” by Lady Libris

Submitted to Contest #133

As it turns out, leaving was the easy part. When my not exactly beloved husband confided that he was going to take the considerable funds the Vatican had endowed him with to go and slay the heretics in Protestant Europe (in God’s Holy name, of course), I agreed to follow him into hiding in Italy for a lack of better options for myself. When I asked him about the undoubtedly elaborated ruse he’d devised to sneak me off the estate, he burst out laughing and took several long and deliberate moments to compose himself. “Are you ser...

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“The Brilliance of Cowards” by Lady Libris

Submitted to Contest #131

If I had been a carpenter or stone mason’s daughter, my earthly life would probably be behind me, snuffed out most inelegantly by the noxious fumes of the monthly witch’s pyre held every Friday night after midnight Mass in the town square. Because my father was a notoriously rich and well connected pervert, I was spared death and disgrace by way of a wedding. When I was caught “fornicating with the devil,” my father gave me an ultimatum: burn in hell (literally and figuratively, as it turned out), or become a wife. When I asked if I ...

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