Electronic fiction by ladyhildegarde

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Courtyard

                have an image of her fixed in my mind: she is standing beneath an arbor, her face shaded by a wide-brimmed hat. She is dressed all in black, pulling away her long black gloves as she laughs.
                Now the arbor is bare, and a hollow wind caresses my face in the abandoned garden. What has happened here? I am sure no one comes out here for tea anymore.
               The broken gazebo languishes in a sea of waist-high weeds. The garden slumbers to the music of cicadas, who chorus suddenly, startlingly, to an impetus I cannot guess.

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Beginning	Library	Tower
Conservatory	Dark Virtue	Links
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