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The Eldest Bird of Paradise

By Denzel Xavier Scott in Issue #465 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies Online Magazine We have delicious cuisine. We are lovers of life. We are lovers of love. We are so many things, but above all else, we are lovers of freedom that live in a cage that no one can enter and no one can leave. Though my homeland is beautiful, peaceful, and filled with abu...

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The Goddess of Not Enough

You’re eighteen. Your fairy godmother just fired you, because after three balls, the prince has grown bored with you. Tonight you stepped on his foot during a gavotte. “If you’d been cleverer,” the fairy godmother says—her words silver chimes girded with steel—“you’d have pretended your clumsiness was really punishment: a reminder to focus on yo...

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