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🐦⬛ The Haunting of Black Hollow Ranch
The three of them had been hired to watch the cattle on the lower range for Mr. Dugan. Right in the middle of the land sat the old ranch house. The family had long since left, but the stories stuck around like burrs on a mule’s tail.
When the Trees Listen: A Bloom & Bough Snippet
The little girl giggled and patted Needle’s trunk. “I think the tree heard me.”
The Sullivan Sisters and the Sin of Letty Grant: A Sullivan Sisters' Tale
The young girl’s family had come in from the Territory once the next-of-kin had been notified. It had been quite a shock and distress to them, because they hadn’t known where their daughter was. She had disappeared six months earlier, running away from home, and they hadn’t heard from her since.
A Butterfly’s Breath: A Fairy Fable Snippet
Up and up and up the butterfly went, until it reached the very tippy tops of the trees.
The Midnight Wrangler
Annie Jo squinted ahead. The rustlers hadn't seen them yet, by God's grace. This was the second theft in as many months. She had thought the extra precautions would stop it. Anger, sharp and bitter, rose in her throat as she watched her cattle driven further into the narrow pass.
In the Shadow of Orion, part 2 (of 2)
She stepped from the platform onto a crystalline bridge that arched over a starmap like a frozen wave. Below, a glowing spiral of constellations spun endlessly, each thread a path, a memory, a story. She walked slowly, her boots clicking faintly. The bridge felt delicate, but sure.