First, if you haven’t yet, check out my #AuThorsday interview on the blog of Sunshine Somerville. Good Outlaws of Avalon talk!
Second, for your reading pleasure: A pair of drabbles (stories exactly 100 words in length) inspired by pieces discovered via deviartART. Enjoy!
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I thought, She’s small enough to fit inside my suitcase.
So in she went.
The airport never questioned it and, despite the flight attendants’ judgment, I kept the case in my lap in the air.
We traveled the skies, and then overland by bus, and underground by train – everything blurring past like some long-ago memory.
The broad, winding rivers carried us through enchanted country, beneath the same moon that rises over everywhere.
We posed before windmills, cathedrals, the ruins of castles.
She saw much of the world. Or, well, it saw her.
The dear little thing napped the whole time.
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He’d started with vessels tied up at the docks, then scaled it down from there.
Ships in bottles. Ships in paintings. The ship on his great-auntie’s brooch.
He’d heard it said – no, read it on a poster – that a ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. And he first of all agreed, and second of all freed the glossy ship from its motivational prison.
Things with sails were meant for sailing, and his fingers were meant for magic. If his liberations made him a pirate, he didn’t much care. The sea’s far horizon was calling.
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(Enjoyed what I wrote? There’s loads more where that came from! Browse the DEShipley catalogue, why dontcha. Or if you wish, leave a tip on my GoFundMe page; I’m covered for Outlaws of Avalon 2, praise God, but there’s always Book 3 and beyond… ;D )
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