Laura Pruett
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Laura Pruett, author of The Dwarves Of Dimmerdown and others.
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A Monumental Task
Prologue The river ran backwards on the day the Queen vanished. A few of us watched it happen from the Duke’s bow, but we were helpless to stop it. It came without warning, without even the beginnings of a whirlpool to alert us that there might be a problem, some kind of shift in the otherwise calm waters below. My body slammed against the prow while my mind was still registering the shock, saving me from the fate of so many, who went sprawling overboard with screams of surprise, and by the time I managed to get my feet under myself again, the ship had already begun to drift sideways. My stomach lurched along with it.
By Laura Pruettabout a year ago in Fiction
Love Is Blind
One hundred steps between my front door and hers. I know because I counted each one of them that first time, when her singing reached my ears. Her enchanting voice drew me in, made my heart race as one, two, three locks clicked open, then a pivot and the turn of a key locked my apartment back up tight.
By Laura Pruettabout a year ago in Fiction
The Way Forward
The river ran backwards on the day the Queen vanished. He was too slow though, that grotesque and putrid creature, and I caught him in his dark green face with the back of my halberd, knocking him, sprawling and bleeding, back toward the stream. I finished that one off as he tried to roll away, but more were coming, rising out of the water like so many mutated nymphs, their inhuman faces agog with a bloodlust as strong as their stench.
By Laura Pruettabout a year ago in Fiction
