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Other young ladies Etain's age of ten years were helping the war effort. They cared for younger siblings to free up their mothers for tasks more important to keeping the queendom of Danaan running; they tended gardens to free up the fields for growing food for the soldiers fighting the Anglians; they knit socks to keep the soldiers' feet warm. Warm feet were very important, Cliodhna told Etain wisely. Nobody could think or do very well with cold feet.

( Etain wasn't very good at knitting )

a half-whispered prayer by Alex Conall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

( Everyone knows Cassandra. )

You speak of 'spinning glamorie' or 'weaving glamorie' as though spinning and weaving are arts comparable to that of creating glamorie. You say this who have never done any threadwork in your life. Here: pass the shuttle between the warp threads and watch the thread grow too taut here, the weave too loose there. Here: give the spindle a twist and watch the infant yarn fall to pieces.

You say the effort of glamorie is comparable to that of threadwork. You, sir, lie. If glamorie were difficult as threadwork, you would compel me to do it, rather than forbidding me.

crossposted from conallpublications.com

glamorie by Alex Conall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Home Is Where The Heart Is is an installment in Nine for the Nebula's Heart, meditating on the nature of quests.

Nine for the Nebula's Heart is a collaborative-canon project. Come play!

Before You Make Your Move is an installment in Nine for the Nebula's Heart. Ndidi and Hinata each learn something valuable from the other.

Nine for the Nebula's Heart is a collaborative-canon project. Come play!

( Rock back and forth, rock side to side to side. )

This is a story from the universe of my novel quartet in progress, Blow That Trumpet Gabriel. Consider it canon.

( Jyoti stood alone )

By the Light of the Moon by Elizabeth Conall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

"The Fairest Of Them All" has now been posted on

poetree and AO3; the AO3 link has podpoem download and streaming by

anna_unfolding.

( The sky was the pale gray of marble columns in / the throne room of Queen Aeron. [...] )

The Fairest Of Them All by Elizabeth Conall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

This is a story from the universe of my novel quartet in progress, Blow That Trumpet Gabriel. It is not necessarily canon; not nearly enough of the books have been written for me to know.

Content warning: character death.

( who had love that's now departed? )

What Becomes of the Brokenhearted by Elizabeth Conall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

( Kaimana presses the bamboo stamp onto the unevenly flattened kapa cloth... )

Green and Blue by Elizabeth Conall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

( Lily sat in the driveway of her house, a box of sidewalk chalk beside her. )

Flower Skip by Elizabeth Conall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

( Karen just wants the whole issue to go away. )

Where Should This Music Be? by Elizabeth Conall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

( Once there was a little mermaid who saved a young fisherman from a storm and promptly fell in love with him. )

The Food of Love by Elizabeth Conall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

( There are two ways to achieve multicolored flowers on a single rosebush. )

Bloom Where You're Planted by Elizabeth Conall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

It cost money she did not have to buy
flax and cotton fiber, or seeds to fly
where they might grow into plants needing more
tending than she could afford. ( So she tore )

A Spell of Smoke and Notions by Elizabeth Conall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

( Serrune was the first to catch sight of the mazor. They were making no attempt, magical or otherwise, to conceal themselves; the purple head and green wings of the one and the blue and gold scales of the other were plain against the pale sky. They couldn't have seen Serrune—his fur was much the same shade as the tall grass—but the next moment it was plain that one of them had, because they arrowed down towards him. )

I wrote two short stories for the collection A Dinner of Herbs, which is now available on Amazon, paperback and Kindle. The only ebook format currently available is Kindle, but there's no DRM so buying it and converting it to a format suiting your ereader is a definite possibility. If you don't have an ereader, Kindle for PC is free, or there's always the paperback.

My stories are "To the Devil and Back", a lesbian retelling of "Rapunzel" set in 1750s England, and "Pray You, Love, Remember", an original concerning a mortal woman raised by fae and trying to balance both her worlds. My friend Anne B. Walsh's are "The Wisdom to Know the Difference", in which a young witch in training does her first major magic, and "Born to Set It Right", in which a Damsel and Companion on Quest with a Hero to defeat a Villain deconstruct fantasy tropes.

I hope you enjoy.

( 'Minor glitch in the plan, folks,' Shelena announced. 'The spell didn't take.' )

dragon hoard by Elizabeth Conall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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secure this beckoning sunshine

or else accept the rain

Entries tagged with genre: fantasy

a half-whispered prayer

little witches (freebie for the October Bear In Chair Prompt Call)

Fiction Friday: glamorie

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Sensory Overstimulation [freebie for December Fiction Fishbowl]

By the Light of the Moon [crowdfunding Creative Jam freebie]

The Fairest Of Them All

What Becomes of the Brokenhearted [commissioned by sharpeningthebones]

Green and Blue [sponsored by book_worm5 from July Fiction Fishbowl]

Longer than the Way [linkback perk for August Fiction Fishbowl; trigger warning, sexual assault]

Flower Skip [commissioned by dawn_bat]

Where Should This Music Be? [sponsored by jb_slasher, from the July Fiction Fishbowl]

The Food of Love [linkback perk for July Fiction Fishbowl]

Bloom Where You're Planted [freebie for the July Fiction Fishbowl]

A Spell of Smoke and Notions

We Come In Peace [set on Anne B. Walsh's Trycanta, written with permission]

A Dinner of Herbs

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