May Fiction
May. 1st, 2012 10:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ann_leckieHappy International Workers Day!
It's also the calends of May, the festival of the Bona Dea.
Completely unrelated to this, it is also the day new fiction goes up on GigaNotoSaurus! This month it's "Tilia Songbird" by Francesca Forrest.
Read! Enjoy!
It's also the calends of May, the festival of the Bona Dea.
Completely unrelated to this, it is also the day new fiction goes up on GigaNotoSaurus! This month it's "Tilia Songbird" by Francesca Forrest.
“I have a song for you,” the girl said, appearing in Anj’s study unannounced. The two bluetails in the cage by the window trilled a welcome.
Anj looked past the girl to the outer chamber. Where was Shen? He was supposed to keep things like this from happening.
“Your servant is striking a bargain to get your roof repaired,” the girl said, joining Anj in looking into the outer room. Then she leaned across Anj’s desk, so the two were practically nose to nose. “He’ll probably overpay,” she said. She smelled of goat. Anj leaned back slightly, but then the girl herself pulled away and stood up straight.
“Here’s my song,” she said. She clasped her hands together and began to sing, full voiced, as if she were out on a hillside, among the goats and the clouds, and not in a tiny room filled with the accoutrements of a civil servant from the Empire of Cinnabar.
Read! Enjoy!