Olive Silirus

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Oct, 2022

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“The Day of the Gracious” by Olive Silirus

Warning: brief mention of deathA stranger was walking the streets of the market.The young man meandered idly about, his head held high and his nose wrinkled. Occasionally, his bejeweled hands would reach into a nearby basket, selecting a fruit and inspecting it before tossing it back.The vendors watched with hateful eyes, not daring to protest.After all, today was the Day of the Gracious.Every seven months, the reigning monarch would come to inspect the markets and homes of the men and women he or she ruled. Perhaps ‘inspect’ would be too ge...

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“The Ribbon Girl” by Olive Silirus

They called her the ribbon girl. Though she rarely walked through the cobbled, gray streets of her small town, the villagers spoke often of her. They spread unkind and foolish rumors of the once unnoticed inhabitant of their hamlet. They whispered words of deceit and watched carefully whenever the young girl came into their view, searching for a crack or a flaw. Because of the black hood that covered her head and spilled red and white ribbons from its depths, they murmured that she perhaps had no hair and wore a ridiculous wig made of string...

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