Archive for 'Stories'
So
So
© 2005 George Reed
“So, Boy, how is it you have forgotten the most basic thing I ever taught you?”
The voice was stern, edged with mild amusement, and laced with a timeless wisdom. The Student bowed his head before the Eldest, a faint glow rising about his cheeks.
“I am sorry, Elder, I see to have gotten […]
Posted: December 29th, 2005 under Stories.
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Hansel and Gretel, Part II
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Hansel and Gretel, Part II
© 2005 George Reed
The first of my kind, and the last of my line…
Foundations set on hope, and roots built of time…
Never was the soul who could pass beyond my […]
Posted: December 29th, 2005 under Stories.
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Hansel and Gretel, Part I
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Hansel and Gretel, Part I
© 2005 George Reed
In deeping forest far away where deer and fox run free…
In shadowed glade a promise made to cherish equally…
A love anew and future bright and children close […]
Posted: December 29th, 2005 under Stories.
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Faheud One Shot
Faheud One Shot
© 2005 George Reed
It came to pass in the late fourteenth year of the society of the grande tournament–more commonly known as the Society for Creative Anachrowhatsits–that a tournament was held in a lovely park in a quiet part of the modern world known to many in the arcane tongues as Monterey.
As luck […]
Posted: December 29th, 2005 under Stories.
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Estrella, Long Ago
Estrella, Long Ago
© 2005 George Reed
As I prepare to pack for Estrella XXI, I am reminded inescapably of the last Estrella to which I travelled, so many years ago. It is not that it was so tremendous a time of great deeds or accomplishments for me–though as a bard I made something of a breakthrough […]
Posted: December 29th, 2005 under Stories.
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Cinderella, Part III
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Cinderella, Part III
© 2005 George Reed
No mortal hand that made me, fashioned out of crystal clear…
No mortal hand would trade me if they felt I would stay near…
No magic can undo me as […]
Posted: December 29th, 2005 under Stories.
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Cinderella, Part II
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Cinderella, Part II
© 2005 George Reed
I am but a hearth brush and no one speaks to me…
If they did I’d tell, perchance, of wonders that I see…
I’d tell mayhap of Faerie hands that […]
Posted: December 29th, 2005 under Stories.
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Cinderella, Part I
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Cinderella, Part I
© 2005 George Reed
I am but a feather…drifting in the hall…
Where as you know last night was held a brilliant royal ball…
I drift above a gilded throne wherein sat the King…
Who […]
Posted: December 29th, 2005 under Stories.
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Anansi and the Magic Pot
Anansi and the Magic Pot
© 2005 George Reed
A very long time ago, in a land long swallowed by the angry oceans, there was a clever fellow named Anansi. Now some may say that Anansi was a man, whilst others hold that he was a Spider. In truth, he was one of the Elder, Spirit-folk who […]
Posted: December 29th, 2005 under Stories.
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Valentine
It came to pass that at a Candlemas event held one snowy Valentines day in the southern reaches of the Middle Kingdom, there was a great auction where many laurels of the land had donated wares and crafts and commissions to allow the King’s travels to better continue.
Midway through this venture, an item came up […]
Posted: December 29th, 2005 under Songs, Stories.
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