SINGLE PAGE STORY* SUNDAY: DISCRETE - Callamine…

SINGLE PAGE STORY* SUNDAY: DISCRETE - Callamine held the scroll above the sleeping baby's forehead.

She'd been ordered to curse the boy as punishment for the actions of the father. Such things did not sit well with Calla, who believed the one responsible should bear the consequences of their actions, not the next generation. But she was still only a low-level fairy and as such, dared not disobey a command from her queen.

She did, however, dare to speak the curse instead of touching the written words to the newborn's skin.

Thus on his sixteenth birthday, the day the boy was to die, the master weaver celebrated his first year of apprenticeship by letting the boy dye the first wool of the season.

Callamine had slug duty for a lunar month as punishment. Disgusting, but temporary. After all, a fairy who'd thrice failed her advancement assessment couldn't be smart enough to know about homophones.

* fanciful microfiction of less than 300 words

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