Author: Sarah L King
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The Trials
I have never really belonged anywhere. Never truly been respected by anyone. That ends today. I stand at the entrance to the trials with the others. Some have already formed alliances, and maybe it will help them get through, but the inscription above the archway should act as a warning to them. Only the strongest…
Sarah L King
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Blood In the Soil
I wonder what they see as I tend to my garden. I can feel their stares, hear the mutters they exchange behind their hands. Do they wonder how I got these scars, or do they make up stories and listen to rumours? The slashes that mar my face happened long ago, in this very place.…
Sarah L King
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Of His Earth – Preview
Chapter 1 – The full moon bathes the valley in an ethereal glow, causing the dewdrops to sparkle and glitter, rivalling the stars adorning the night sky, but I have no time to admire it. Getting here was its own ordeal. I am generally shooed away in the village, which made finding passage… difficult. In…
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The Dark Road
The moonless night is dark—oppressively so—and the beam of light emitting from the front of my bike does little to dispel it. It’s okay. I know these roads, I’ve ridden them every day for a year, through sweltering heat, torrential rain, lethally slick ice, and impenetrable fog. During the day, the dusk, and the night.…
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The Trees are Alive
The shiver of leaves moves like a wave across the forest canopy. I’ve come to recognise the language of the ancient trees. The message they are relaying is one of danger. When I first arrived here, I knew I was finally home. I’d never fitted in anywhere, and here I am free of expectations. Over…
Sarah L King
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A Dance With a Fairy
All my life I’d been warned of the other folk. Told never to walk in the woods alone, and never follow a voice I didn’t recognise. I ignored all I was ever told about them on that fateful summer’s night. I wondered in the forest, heard the strange music, and I followed an unfamiliar voice…
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The Treasue
Our discovery was supposed to be the find of the century. Our hunt had lasted for years, coming up against dead end after dead end. Mistranslated passage after incomplete map. We’d all but given up when we made our final discovery. It was a journal passage from a previous seeker, and last year it would…
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The Crown
I sit on my throne, the crown atop my head. I did it. I finally did it. All the years of political manoeuvring, all the half-truths and dirty lies, all the secrets kept at great cost, and the ones revealed for an even higher one. They have all led me here, where I truly belong.…
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The Hunter and The Prey
The hunter weaves through the busy street as they pursue their target at a distance. It’s easy to blend into the crowd in the chaos of the night market, more difficult to dodge the stall owners hawking their goods, but the hunter manages just fine. The man—a predator—had been disrespected in the bar. It was…
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Dancing in the Moonlight
One summer’s day, as I wonder through the lush green woods, I come upon a hollow tree. There’s nothing beautiful about it, nothing to make it stand out amongst the others, and yet I’m drawn to it, like the pull of music. My eyes are heavy, my feet weary, and so I sit to rest,…
