Title: Ovid, Smoked Fish and the Good
Sea

Author Eglantine_br

Rating G

Word Count 1334

Ovid, Smoked Fish and the Good Sea

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Title: On the Riverbank

Author Eglantine_br

Word Count 424

Rating G

On the Riverbank

The red sound and the smell of the canon, and his horse fighting for his head. Percy swerved them off the road. Between the trees now, and the branches tore at his hat, whipped his face. Closer now, and the sound shook him, and the taste-smell was of terror.

“Reload!”

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Title: Death with Turtle Soup

Author: Eglantine_br

Rating PG for dark thoughts

Word Count 585

Death and Turtle Soup

Percy was hungry. Eat when you can. That was good advice for any soldier. And the turtle soup was really not bad. The company was the problem. He kept his head down, spooned it in. Had he been somewhere quiet, he would have enjoyed it.

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Title: Writing Home

Author Eglantine_br

Rating G

Word Count 375

Pre-Cannon Edrington

Writing Home

'Dear Mama,'

Percy paused a moment to taste the butter yellow of the words. The words for her on the page were the same as her voice, her presence. This was not the case with everyone. But his mother was always the same-- yellow and butter.

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Title: Now You See It

Author Eglantine_br

Rating G

Word Count 1300

Now You See It

Percy was four, (almost five.) he lived in the nursery of a big house.

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