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    “I’m a girl. I used to be a boy. Guess what! I used to be a human too! Things change, Wirt! It doesn’t have to be a big deal.” Beatrice snaps, throwing her wings out.

    Or: Wirt and Beatrice have a conversation about becoming in Endicott's armoire.

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    Enoch's catskin is dying, he's planning to take it somewhere dark and quiet to die. He needs someone to look after Pottsfield in its absence.

    For the Enoctober 2022 prompt: Chew the meat, spit out the bones.

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    Every day, 120 anonymous Michelin reviewers and more than 100,000 secret agents pass each other like ships in the night.

    Nearly every day, anyway.

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    There comes a time, when two people have known each other a very long time, that they have spoken of all the things that they can possibly think to speak of. And this, of course, leads to a silence. Some of these silences are comfortable, and some are not. It is the uncomfortable silences that usually end with parting. And it is in the comfortable silences that a game is born.

    The game usually starts something like this:

    “One of yours, I believe.” Intones the Beast.

    Written for the Enochtober 2024 prompt: Separate the wheat from the chaff

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    In his original, rawest state, Enoch thinks he might have been something close to water.

    Written for the Enochtober 2024 prompt: As fit as a butcher's dog

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    The cat’s teeth had fallen out nearly five years back, and that had been time enough, but Enoch had dug in his heels, and his Pottsfielders, ever falling over themselves to indulge him, had eagerly cooed at the gummy-mouthed thing, mincing the turkey cuts into paste and bottle feeding the damn thing like a babe.

    He was cute, Miss Daisy had defended, cradling the bundle of black fur in her arms. Enoch had given the Beast a toothless grin from the crook of her elbow.

    Then its fur had begun falling out in clumps, and he wasn’t cute anymore.

    Written for the Enochtober 2024 prompt: Like Squeezing Blood from a Turnip

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    There is a black cat in Pottsfield.

    But he is no friend of witches.

    But rumor has it, lately, that he is no friend of Beasts.

    Writen for the Enochtober 2024 prompt: Higher than a cat's back

    Alternatively Titled: Pavlov, Schrodinger and Freud Walk Into a Bar

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    “I have a school assignment,” Lorna says by way of a greeting as she drops her bag on the kitchen table.

    “I have a composition to fine-tune, and Enoch has a budget analysis for the new library to look over,” Uncle Edel says from the living room, and then as if to prove his point, plucks out a couple of notes on the piano before replacing the sound with frustrated scribbling.

    Uncle Enoch, who is either in a better mood than his husband, or is as eager to be done with the library budget as Lorna is to be done with her homework, begins pushing his paper aside and removes his reading glasses.

     

    For the Lanternuary 2022 prompt: War of all against all - Bellum omnium contra omnes

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    “I see the issue then, but you know, fledgling.” The cat drawls, fangs flashing as he grins. “There's more than one way to skin a cat. I imagine it’s much the same for bluebirds.”

    For the Enoctober 2022 prompt: More than one way to skin a cat.

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    Two perfectly normal barn cats have a meeting.

    For the Enoctober 2022 Prompt: Storm in a Tea Cup

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    A corpse is brought to Pottsfield. Enoch sends his niece a care package. Will the resourcefulness of Pottsfielders never end?

    Or: The butcher and the leathersmith need work, for goodness sake!

    Written for the Enoctober prompt 2022: Waste not want not.

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    The logistics of a marriage-maypole dance are difficult to work out when one participant is a maypole. Pottsfielders are nonetheless, creative.

    Written for the Enoctober 2022 prompt: May your cup runneth over

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    Pottsfield’s incongruity with the forest tucked around it rarely brought anything but occasional unseasonable weather.

    And really, what difference does a decade or even a century make when one is immortal and even change itself is unchanging.

    All the difference, apparently.

    For the Lanternuary 2022 prompt: A day as dark as night - Dies tenebrosa sicut nox

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    The Beast's ears are nearly as sharp as his nose.

     

    For the Lanternuary 2022 prompt: Silence is golden - Silentium est aurum

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    Enoch watches over the Dark Lantern.

     

    For the Lanternuary 2022 prompt: Always burning - Semper ardens

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    Two days after the brothers leave, Lorna feels better than she has ever felt in her life.

    It's easier to stand up than it has been in years, free of the gnawing cinch of hunger like a corset. Lorna is warm as if her blood has remembered how to flow. She no longer shivers like a leaf in the wind at every odd hour, and when she goes to bed, she only needs half as many blankets. When morning comes, it is easy to rise with the sun, and her fingers do not seem clumsy and slow when she picks up the delicate hobbies she had mostly abandoned as her affliction had worsened.

    Sometime after midnight on the third morning, when the sun is long from dawning, she wakes with an unquenchable hunger roaring in her ears.

    For the Lanternuary 2022 prompt: I have sinned - Peccavi

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    Sometimes the spirit is unwilling, but the flesh is weak.

    For the Lanternuary 2022 prompt: With a twisted neck - Obtorto collo (“unwillingly”)

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    Pottsfielders worry about what will become of Enoch when the Beast dies, few spare a thought to how he lives.

    Miss Clara is no exception, until she is.

     

    For the Lanternuary 2022 prompt: I hope against hope - Contra spem spero

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    Two times Enoch saw beneath the Beast's veil of shadows.

    For the Lanternuary 2022 Prompt: From the shadow into the light - Ex umbra in solem

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    The Woodsman pities the Magistrate, who doesn't know what a great and terrible monster he's courting.

    Mr. Zebadaiah pities Mr. Hope, who doesn't know what a great and terrible monster he's in love with.

     

    Alternatively titled: Matched Set
    For the Lanternuary 2022 prompt: Decay, Death, Despair - Imputresco, Mortem, Despero

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