Jack Drake
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Winter's Silent Wings - Chapter 1 "Barn Owl"
Chapter 1 "Barn Owl" Darkness had surrounded the girls, with only the faintest starlight sifting through the cloudy sky and down between the trees. Cold and tired they stumbled on, the younger girl’s sobs fading into cold exhaustion. Behind them they had briefly heard anguished screams, fading as they plunged farther into the woods. The younger child tripped, sprawling across the stony ground. She cried out.
By Jack Drake3 years ago in Fiction
Winter's Silent Wings - Prologue
"Winter's Silent Wings" by John Robert Harvey -- Prologue -- A quick bundle slung upon her back, the woman urged her two daughters to go faster up the wooded hill above their village. Smoke and screams rose as their home was consumed by flame and marauder. Somewhere, back down below, what was left of her husband - and their father - was being trampled into the late autumn snow that dusted the earth.
By Jack Drake3 years ago in Fiction