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This is wicked good! Fabulous world-building, and the storyteller-the bard- enchained. This is very much what storytelling is like, isn’t it? Loved it!

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Thank you!!

Haha, yep! Don’t think I could stop writing even if I wanted to😅

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Like Jorge Luís Borges fighting to the death with Angela Carter in a deserted library basement where the lack of light gives Angela no advantage.

Masterful stuff, I enjoyed it tremendously. Need to go back and reread our Lamia haikus and see if there's a key to unlocking the serpent-lady's power.

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Ah thank you! I’m glad you liked it. The haikus made me remember I had written this!

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My mind is boggling to think you could write something like this and then forget you'd done it. If I'd written it I would be reciting it daily to passers-by on the street.

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Ah geez☺️ 🖤❤️

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love this!!

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Thank you so much 😊

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Had to read again. There is something about this, the atmosphere, that reminds me of one of my favorite books, Piranesi. it’s stone monuments made real, a museum of monsters, just incredibly beautiful and satisfying.

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Wow! Thank you! I’ll have to check out that book!

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Oh wow! What a brilliant concept for a story!

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Thank you 🙏

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