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crosstowngate 9:30 am on March 6, 2021
Tags: angel, fantasy ( 2 ), fiction ( 93 ), fire, flash fiction ( 5 ), Short Fiction ( 79 ), tree, writing ( 78 )   

Justice Sat Beneath the Tree of Fire

Justice sat beneath the Tree of Fire and contemplated existence. Each leaf upon the tree was living tissue paper, so thin and delicate that the merest concentration or focus of the sun’s rays was enough to conflagrate the wispy leaves, turning them to brilliant ash.

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crosstowngate 8:00 pm on July 24, 2020
Tags: fiction ( 93 ), fire, garden ( 21 ), greek, hera, knight ( 20 ), myth ( 19 ), novel ( 19 ), Olympus, princess ( 21 ), writing ( 78 ), zeus   

Chapter Seventeen: Fire in the Heavens

He raised his lantern to the night air. The forest was empty—only the bare skeletons of branch and bough remained, naked to the wind. Dead leaves littered the ground, paper thin and limp. The color had gone out of them, victims of the damp.

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