letters from the archive, in no particular hurry
by SepiaLore
A little prince came down into the desertand asked a lonely pilot to draw him a sheep.He had crossed the starscarrying one small rose in his heart,but it was on Earth,among five thousand roses,that he learned what made one flowerdifferent...
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Two boys walk beside the watercarrying something that should have been flying.Her wings are wounded,her eyes are covered,and a few small white flowers remain in her hand.They do not know how to heal an angel.They only know that she is...
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Begin with a bowl.It is whole once.Then, one day, it falls.The sound is small.The damage is not.Its pieces lie on the floor exactly as they landed, each one carrying a piece of what the bowl used to be.But in Japan,...
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A child was left on the steps of a monastery, and a house of friars became the only home he knew.He grew up among rough hands, old stone, bells, mischief, and men who loved him as best they could. But...
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Four boys leave town at the end of summer, packs on their backs, walking the railway tracks toward a dead boy they have never known.They think they are going to find a body.They do not know they are walking toward...
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He had been thinking about the old woman long before he killed her.Not because he hated her.Because he had turned her into an idea.There were ordinary men, he believed, and there were extraordinary men. The first lived inside the law....
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He had a song powerful enough to make the dead listen. He used it to bring his wife back. One condition: he could not look at her until they reached the light. So he walked first. She followed in silence....
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They stole a lord's son and returned him to the world as a joke. Before he could remember his father's house, men cut a smile into his face and left him in the snow. Years later, crowds would pay to...
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