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Chapter 45. “Whitebird Must Fly” from The Weavers of Amirra

June 8, 2022 by Marri Champié

Tell me the story of a hero and I will write a song to break your heart.

Filed Under: Books, Short Stories Tagged With: fantasy, heroic fantasy, novel excerpt

Frost

March 28, 2019 by Marri Champié

from “Women Who Sleep With Dogs”
“I am rings. Rings of happy and sad seasons. Thick rings, and thin. An old tree, waiting to be cut down, or struck by lightning. I am rings of history and fear.”

Filed Under: Short Stories Tagged With: death, heatbreak, time, winter, Women Who Sleep With Dogs

The Jink

November 29, 2018 by Marri Champié

from “Memoirs of the Grey Ranger”

I came from the Wastefield-Barrio on Orous and I am Jemini Delagrassi, a girl who got misprinted on one side.

Filed Under: Short Stories Tagged With: Alcoyne Magazine, fortune telling, lucky coin, orphan, pawn shoppe, Science Fiction, space opera

“Into the Sawtooths” an excerpt from “A Bridge in the Wilderness”

April 4, 2018 by Marri Champié

from “The Bridge in the Wilderness”
a story told by Indy, in “Women Who Sleep With Dogs.”

Filed Under: Short Stories Tagged With: back country horse rides, beauty, courage, divorce, fear, finding, horses, mountains, Sawtooths

Cat’s Garden

February 1, 2018 by Marri Champié

from “Women Who Sleep With Dogs”
Loneliness seeped into each windswept, prairie day until Cat could almost finger the sadness that clogged her throat, and feel its shape, a cold desperation that was hard like stone

Filed Under: Short Stories Tagged With: Boise State University President's Writing Award, death, Fiction, ghosts, growing old, pot culture, previous lives, ROAR Magazine, Sept-May relationships, Women Who Sleep With Dogs

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