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    Fae Horse: A Faerie Tale
    Fae Horse: A Faerie Tale
    Fae Horse: A Faerie Tale
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    Fae Horse: A Faerie Tale

    By Anthea Sharp

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    Accused as witch, Eileen must flee for her life, leaving her village and true love behind. With her pursuers closing in, she chances across a strange black horse - but does she dare to pay the price of escape?

    Fae Horse is a short story of 5k words (about 25 pages) in the traditional dark faerie tale style.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFiddlehead Press
    Release dateOct 28, 2014
    ISBN9781680130287
    Fae Horse: A Faerie Tale
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    Anthea Sharp

    ~ Award-winning author of YA Urban Fantasy ~Growing up, Anthea Sharp spent her summers raiding the library shelves and reading, especially fantasy. She now makes her home in the Pacific Northwest, where she writes, plays the fiddle, and spends time with her small-but-good family. Contact her at antheasharp@hotmail.com, follow her on twitter, find her on facebook (http://www.facebook.com/AntheaSharp), and visit her website.

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      Fae Horse - Anthea Sharp

      FAE HORSE: A Faerie Tale

      ~*~

      ANTHEA SHARP

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to real events or persons is purely coincidental.

      Copyright 2014 Anthea Sharp. All rights reserved. Visit the author at www.antheasharp.com and join her mailing list, Sharp Tales, at https://tinyletter.com/AntheaSharp for a *free story* and news of upcoming releases!

      Cover: Night Queen by Neighko, used with permission. Background by Chorazin, licensed via Fotolia

      QUALITY CONTROL: If you encounter typos or formatting problems, please contact antheasharp@hotmail.com so they may be corrected.

      FAE HORSE

      If the men caught her, they would tie her to the stake and set the fire.

      Eileen O’Reilly crouched beneath a hawthorn tree, her heartbeat dinning in her ears so loudly it nearly drowned out the sound of her pursuers. Torchlight smeared the night, casting fiendish shadows over the hedgerows. She clenched her hands in her woolen skirt and gasped for air, trying to haul breath into her shaking lungs.

      She had heard there was no worse agony than burning alive.

      The flames would scorch and blister her skin before devouring her, screaming, as her bones charred. Eileen swallowed back bile.

      Shredded clouds passed over the face of the half moon. One moment, sheltering darkness beckoned; the next, the newly-planted fields were washed with silver, her safety snatched away.

      "I see

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