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Tall tales told short.

Tania Fordwalker writes speculative fiction.
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A mysterious pandemic calls humanity back to the sea.
A stolen phoenix wreaks havoc on the dry Australian forest.
A boy must keep a young wyvern safe from his poacher father.
A grieving carpenter creates a door that can take away memories.
​A slave discovers the true form of the dragon tormenting her captors.
To learn their fates, read on...

Tania Fordwalker writes speculative fiction.

A story is a door to another world.
The doors below sit ajar.
​Take a peek...

STORY: Lapis Lazuli

26/8/2016

 

PUBLISHED: 
​Andromeda Spaceways
REPRINTED: PodCastle | Flash Fiction Online
FORMAT: Text & audio | 1000 words | 5-min read

In Sesara, only the rich wear bright colours. My knight shines in the armour I buff for him nightly, glossy as a jewel. My clothes and skin are the colours of the earth. We stand together with two days of desert at our backs and a forest of black thorns before us. My heart is a bird in my chest.
    I was twelve when the slave traders came from the ocean and stole me. To the Sesarans we Arn all look the same. I was always tall and strong. An unscrupulous trader shaved my head and sold me as a boy to fetch a higher price, and I live as a boy still, because it is better than what waits for me as an Arn girl in this country.
    My new master is a field knight and I am the best help he can afford. Sesaran boys have been in no hurry to volunteer as pages since the dragon came.
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Text © Tania Walker 2022  |  Illustrations by Arthur Rackham