“…and when the wolf clamped its jaws around my the leg and began to drag me back through the snow, I didn’t struggle, nor did I scream. I simply closed my eyes and hoped, prayed, that its home would be better than my own.”
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Notes:
1. Written in February 2020
__________There was a woman who was born in a bookshop. She dreamt in words, spoke in pictures, and always knew a liar when she saw one.
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Notes:
1. Written on June 28th, 2019
__________There was a woman who lived in the woods. She gathered up the dead things that lay on the forest floor and brought them to her home. She gave names to these nameless creatures, whispered words of love and kindness as she placed them in freshly dug graves. And at night they would come out and walk with her, beneath the stars, beneath the moon, the shadows wrapped around them like robes.
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Notes:
1. Written in June 2018
__________…and the princess said to the priest, “god loves his children the same way kings do, an endless series of excuses to justify the violence”
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Notes:
1. Written on May 1st, 2018
__________There was a woman who lived in the woods. She never cut her hair and it grew long and thick and fast and strong. Over the years it tangled up in the branches of the trees and the strangles of the bushes, and eventually it stretched out in strands across the whole of the forest.
And the woman sat in her chair by the fire and rocked herself back and forth and waited, patiently, for those she might draw near.
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Notes:
1. Written August 2014
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