Flash Fiction Month July 09 4July 4: Daughter of the DawnFlash Fiction Month July 09 4
His fourth wife was his favorite. Her name was Jian Shu. The other wives were jealous of her, and for reason.
It was she whose hands were like porcelain lilies when she poured jasmine tea on palace terraces. She who had eyes for line, ears for the forms of words. She whose fingers were steady and deft when they held the brushes to paint mountains, wild streams, rock crags, and bamboo shoots. She whose mind flowed into the characters of her poetry that would delight him with thought and image.
And it was he who whispered to her, after passion had taken and spent him, an
Flash Fiction Month July 09 3July 3: "Legend of M. DeLis, snippet 4"Flash Fiction Month July 09 3
"Please, Father! Please!"
William Gregory did not heed. He had his son by a handful of scarlet hair, was dragging him up and up and up the stone staircase.
"Father, I beg you."
They came to the top of the north tower, where the walls were crumbling inward. Where rats scuttled bright-eyed in the corners and the floor was thick with old straw and pigeon droppings. William turned, grasped his son by the throat and thrust him through the window.
Alexander's body shook. He was looking down at the ground below, dizzy with the height. His
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