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Patina – Chapter 157
By morning it was time to rebuild. No matter Fortunato’s hunch about the town being more or less safe from now on, decades of experiences trumped any lovely sentiment like that. And the morning dawned on the embers of a half-destroyed town. The outer districts were all but destroyed, reduced to little more than rubble…
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Nata di Cera: Una Fiaba Nera – 0
Talia, bambina dal viso sfregiato, viene adottata dal mercante Arodias. Durante gli anni che seguono, Talia cresce nell’isola di Trinacria, in mezzo alle macerie dell’ultima guerra contro gli Invisi, i fatati della Silvagrama. E piano piano, Talia inizia a dubitare quel che le è stato detto sul suo viso e sulla guerra contro la foresta……
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Patina – Chapter 156
Cloria knew she had come too late – but maybe for the the first time in her life, or the last few years at the very least, she was grateful someone else was having all the luck in the world. She cried out from Bernardo’s embrace, a long and wailing sound, her throat parched from…
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Patina – Chapter 155
I did not know where I was, she explained. Her voice was just as melodious as the last time he had heard I and his heart throbbed at holding her once again, so close. She did not smell like anything. Perhaps just a bit like old cinders, the kind you forget in the dark corners.…
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Patina – Chapter 154
He proceeded on the uneven ground – his feet stumbled on holes and cracks. There was a slight upwards slope that lead to a bald peak where something indistinct fluttered, moving back and forth. He knew that was his destination. The crimson light of the thunderbolts going off in the ceiling-sky, showing off the inside…
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A Question of Manners – Fantasy One-Shot
As Eteri the slavegirl gets ready for another day, her owner keeps teasing her with a chance of freedom. This short is set in the Cage of Glass universe. You might want to read this one-shot first. Eteri’s hands did not tremble as much anymore as she took out the precious linen vest and began…
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Patina – Chapter 153
They helped Arguta standing up. The roar of the engines and the lights coming back up had taken her by surprise – as they did everyone else. One moment, they’d been sharing tired gazes, listening to the oppressing silence between the dead walls as the siege continued, knowing that they would soon lose any chance…
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Patina – Chapter 152
One by one, the lights sparked up in blooms of brightness. Starting from the mouth of the Generator and the Temple, they spread in waves upon waves. The survivors and the wounded, the stunned and the fighters, they all fell silent as the dead while they watched the strings of lamp light up. Past the…
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Patina – Chapter 151
Elissa believed that there would be light. Wasn’t it what she was trying to do? Create a new light? Instead she was walking in the darkness. Not in the void of her mind. She was outside. The Threads were not with her. For the first time since she had memory, her mind felt… alone. It…
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How to kill your novel
Last month I was trying to answer a friend’s thorny question: “How do you manage to come up with a new chapter every day?”. While I was squirming on my seat like a hooked worm, trying to overcome my inadequacies (should I tell him sometimes I manage to even fill a chapter with all different…
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