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Short fiction, too. I've tried to write short a few times before, but this is the first time it worked for me.
It's a Litopia flash fiction competition, and the only stipulations were the title and the 150-word maximum.
Thanks to my fellow full members at Litopia for voting my entry the winner. Here it is:
No Turning Back
Have you found Tsuke yet?
Paul and Karen are rebuilding a cautious friendship since their divorce, but her emails still carry echoes.
Tsuke has been good for him. A human baby stolen from her cradle, she’s grown in courage and wisdom until she commands the respect of her former captors, leads her own band of fae fighters in the Forest War, and has helped Paul to sell eleven successful novels.
And, yes, Karen is correct: in Tsuke, he has created his perfect love.
Which explains why he is failing to meet his deadline for this final book, and why he’s written her into an impossible situation. He can’t let her go.
He answers the urgent midnight rap on his front door and Tsuke stands on tiptoe to kiss his cheek. Behind her, his garden has become The Forest.
"I need you." She is beautiful. "Will you come?"
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