Crown’s Plank (Forty-Six) S3E6E9D mETATRON

In her glare, giant granite chess pieces sliding across the board of existence. She’s determined to crush me… Tobi dare not let her eyes be the first to leave the necrotic dance of… Continue reading →

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Crown’s Plank (Forty-Five) My Star – Dionaea

Tobi’s Fleck was, of course, red. She didn’t know what sadistic game Miss Antonina was playing by not coming into the rooms of the girls to wake them this morning or by letting… Continue reading →

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Crown’s Plank (forty-four) Hex-EL Marrow

Before they were permitted to leave for the school building, before they could ever go outside at all, they had to activate their Flecks. Anyone caught outside their assigned house without an activated… Continue reading →

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Crown’s Plank (forty-three) Breakfast Among Furies

Mad, fever-induced nightmares tormented Tobi’s mind that night. When sleep finally came, hellish visions kept her suspended in that terrible place between the dark emptiness of a dreamless sleep and a paralyzed, nearly… Continue reading →

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Crown’s Plank (forty-two) The Fourth Nine

Janess. Janess was possibility. Janess was terror. Janess was legend. Janess was the one thing on Saturnine that offered any hope. When it seemed the world couldn’t get any darker, that there was no… Continue reading →

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Crown’s Plank (forty) Rip the Ground

As the last syllable left Tobi’s lips and imposed itself upon Tess, the energy in the room shifted. It was that abrupt, as violent as the raging winds of a tornado in Spring. Tobi… Continue reading →

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Crown’s Plank (thirty-nine) In Remaking

Tobi continued to stroke Tess’s hair. It was obvious that whatever had happened to her while she had been unconscious had traumatized her. After months of actively pushing Tess away, Tobi now found… Continue reading →

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Crown’s Plank (thirty-eight) Bliss in Darkness

As Tess explained what had happened to her after she had crashed into Tobi in the clearing, Tobi struggled to understand its meaning. She strained her imagination in an attempt to picture Tess’s… Continue reading →

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Crown’s Plank (thirty-seven) No Amount of Love

“Tess, please don’t.  I’m already in enough trouble. If Miss Antonina catches us talking, I can’t even imagine what she’ll think up to punish us.” With that, she started toward the bathroom, hoping… Continue reading →

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