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Submitted to Contest #116
“I need none of your wisdom this night, Gwyneira.” Einar was quick to speak over the scraping of the front door dragging against cold stone, granting a prowling lioness entrance into her den. The fact that he heard the normally silent woman's arrival at all told him all he needed to know of her mood. If he did not speak first, there would be no chance to say what was needed. “Nor do I need your chastisement.”“Chastisement?” She moved further into the room, light from swinging lanterns caught in a night breeze casting harsh shadows across her...
Submitted to Contest #115
It is a disconcerting feeling that weighs upon your mind no matter how many times the specialists say you are better off not thinking about it. Again and again the doctors tell me to focus on the present and to let my mind have the time it needs to properly heal. Still, mother's gentle reminders and father's soft scoldings are not enough to enforce the well-meant medical advice. Perhaps they would have had a chance at reaching me if they truly understood what it felt like to be in my shoes. Maybe then their searching hands could have found...
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