Sophie Holmes

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“Dead Women Tell No Tales” by Sophie Holmes

Submitted to Contest #89

My last breath never felt so easy to take, nor the last glimpse of sunlight over the hill so beautiful. I was falling, floating, flying all at once. My eyes burned with tears but a smile painted on my face nonetheless. This was my end and after all that had happened, I suppose I didn’t mind.  My wrists itched as the rope tightened around them, wrenching my shoulders and my hands behind my back. The knight - who had once been so kind to me - grabbed my forearm roughly and dragged me from my dark, damp cell. I stumbled up the stairs, his...

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An unpublished author who hopes to one day be published.