The Wreath - Chapter 2

02/01/06 • 36 min

(LykeionBooks.com) Kassandra's earliest memory was of an angry blond-haired woman forcing her head under the bathwater, shoving it against the bottom of the tub, and yelling, "If you ever again stuff vegetables in your napkin and lie about eating them..."

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Diminisher of Peace

(Published, Sept 2005 issue of The Harrow) If you can see into the future, gods will take notice of you. Aldred's brother is killed unjustly and Aldred's forbidden to bury or honor him. He defies the decree, and makes a pact with strangers, an old man who won't show his face and a giant who requires a final battle before he lights the pyre for his brother. Aldred returns to face his doom and discovers that an agreement he has made in life pursues him after death.

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Always Becoming

(Published, January 2006 issue of The Harrow) Growth, as a state, is superior to completeness, live for the journey, not its end. Making way for the next witch isn't always easy, but it's part of the job. You have to balance the gardening, baking and midwifery with curses, sin and things that come back from death, the tedious and difficult with the engaging.