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Changing Direction Part Two (The High Priestess, Major Arcana Series) by Francesca Astraea
Read part one here. As she ate, Freja alternately looked out the window and watched Alexandria clean. That smell, industrial kitchen cleaner, felt out of place, somehow. The real world felt further away than it had ten minutes ago, as though the Dutch family had taken the twenty first century away with them. … Continue reading
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Changing Direction Part One (The High Priestess, Major Arcana Series) by Francesca Astraea
Freja didn’t mean to stop for ice cream. The plan was to walk until she could think of nothing but sore feet, walk a bit further, turn around and limp back to the hotel. She reckoned she could lose a good couple of hours, from the seafront at Las Ramblas all the way to—what… Continue reading
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Community Spirit (as seen in Trawler magazine)
Originally published in Trawler magazine, November 2016. As long as Cicely had lived in her village, which was as long as she could remember, she loved to count trees as their leaves turned each autumn. She liked to compare trees along her road to ones she spotted on walks into town, and judge them on… Continue reading
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