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The Churchyard Rose

August 30, 2009 by Marri Champié

It’s May and the first bloom opened on the rose. …It’s been five years since it happened but the thorns of each year prick my heart as sharply as do the thorns on Barbrianna’s briar.
A contemporary fantasy inspired by Child’s Ballad #84, “Barb’ry Allen.”

Filed Under: Short Stories Tagged With: Barb’ry Allen, Child's Ballads, fantasy

The White Seal

March 12, 1999 by Marri Champié

1998 Dell Award Story
“I was not of the sea but loved its blue-green presence as though I were one of its children. The sea murmurs constantly as it takes pieces of the land and breaks them, softens the rough edges, turns them to sand. Like sand, I am worn so no one can tell where I belong.”

Filed Under: Short Stories Tagged With: Celtic, Child's Ballads, Cicada Magazine, coming of age, Dell Awards, fantasy, myth, selchie, selkie

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