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PodCastle Miniature 89: Lapis Lazuli
- Author : Tania Fordwalker
- Narrator : Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
- Host : Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
- Audio Producer : Peter Wood
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PG-13
by Tania Fordwalker
read by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
This story originally appeared in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine.
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.
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