The Stroke of Winter
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Her father, Indigo, and her uncle, Grey,
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Nice character names. Amethyst "Tess"... Indigo her dad. Grey her uncle.
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The twilight was shining in through the wall of windows, its pinky-purply glow casting an almost magical aura on the room. Dust floated in the air.
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LOVE this line. Good writing!
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Back in the day, people covered up things like that. Spoke about it in whispered tones. As though if you spoke of death, it would hear. And come for you.”
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Interesting quote
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peripherally knew.
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And she wondered, too, if it was really sleep at all. If it wasn’t simply their way of touching what was behind the veil. Infants reaching back to where
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they had been. Seniors reaching forward to where they were soon going.
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miasma
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DING Vocab word of the day!