Well, it was for a BF entry but then I was late getting it in. So, a fiction quickie then! Off it goes.

On the inside of my wedding ring, I have an unconventional engraving. Three diamonds and a fleur de lis underneath the central stone, which is a sapphire set deep into the white gold. They are for the points of the compass; the sapphire ( Read more... )

A piece of an in-progress story which likely won't appear in the story itself in full. Madylen Brunn is a young woman (13 or so) who has recently departed her home town in order to stay a summer with her uncle on his newly-purchased orchard and decide whether she will attend a prestigious, if somewhat remote, academy for girls in the area. This ( Read more... )