Title: don't step on a crack
'Verse/characters: Vasilisa
Prompt: 17A "shades"
Word Count: 871
Notes: Between come into my parlour and things you'd rather not see.

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( The room smelled. )

Title: if you call
'Verse/characters: Vasilisa; Vasilisa, her doll
Prompt: 83A "our own world"
Word Count: 222

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( It's her favourite doll )

Title: Bedtime stories
'Verse/characters: Vasilisa; Zhenia, Ilyana, Vasilisa
Prompt: 99B "fairytale"
Word Count: 302
Notes: This predates all the other pieces for this story. I would guess that Zhenia's around eleven, Ilyana eight, and Vasilisa fourish, here.

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( 'And with that, the big grey wolf smiled--the way dogs do, it is something they remember from when they were wolves, too' )

Title: things you'd rather not see
'Verse/characters: Vasilisa; Vasilisa, her Doll
Prompt: zero_pixel_coun: "thin cold hands, skin-and-bone, clutching"
Word Count: 404
Notes: while they're in the terem, so between come into my parlour and pacem.
(the Dormouse threatened me with sticks unless I produced some of this story. *solemn!*)

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( Vasilisa is having one of those days. )

Title: come into my parlor, said the spider . .
'Verse/characters: Vasilisa; the doll, Vasilisa, Baba Yaga
Prompt: 35C "fantasy", klgaffney giving me "intermittently flickering lighting" as a spark
Word Count: 335
Notes: follows autumn sunlight through red tinted leaves. The patchy index for this story is here.

( They stared at the crashed terem for a time, her girl not quite shaking. )

Title: prodigal return
'Verse/characters: Vasilisa; Zhenia, Ilyana, Vasilisa
Prompt: 50A "possibility"
Word Count: 469
Notes: towards the end. Prompted by a poll response. Skipped the alternate language on this one.

( Zhenia was very carefully not demanding of her sister what on earth their mother could have done to the generator )

Title: pacem
'Verse/characters: Witches' Horses; Vasilisa
Prompt: 34B "music"
Word Count: 105
Notes: inside the belly of the beast.

( She woke to silence )

Title: . . that woman's mad.
'Verse/characters: Witches' Horses; Vasilisa
Prompt: 32C "murder"
Word Count: 220
Notes: Prompted by a poll response. Slightly before in a darkened room. From a nonhuman perspective.

( My girl comes, sneaking up the stairs )

Title: a pause for reflection
'Verse/characters: Vasilisa; Zhenia, Ilyana, their mother
Prompt: 48A "silence"
Word Count: 263
Notes: due to death threats (technically disappointed looks), follows in a darkened room. Prompted by a poll response.

( She wasn't holding her breath. )

Title: in a darkened room
'Verse/characters: Witches' Horses; Vasilisa
Prompt: 40C "cynicism"
Word Count: 107
Notes: Zhenia and Ilyana are Vasilisa's older step-sisters; Zhenia was introduced in choir in the wall. Prompted by a poll response.

( If mom-- )