http://tribe.fantasyinminiature.com urban fantasy in miniature Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:09:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Is that what you are?" Laurie asked. "A witch?" "That's what they call us," Woe said. "Because they're afraid of us." "I remember reading that the root word of 'witch' means 'wise'," Laurie said. "Yes," the girl said, nodding. "It does." "So, then... it's not just about being feared," Laurie said. "You're right," Woe said. ... http://tribe.fantasyinminiature.com/arc-05/5-26 The girl's voice sounded very sad, very small as she said that... she sounded at once completely empty and yet also full of woe. What does a wind blow, Laurie thought to herself, if it blows no good? Bad? That seemed less than poetic, somehow. Evil? Evil was something that ... http://tribe.fantasyinminiature.com/chapters/5-25 The girl said nothing, but just stood there staring at Laurie, as still as could be... as still as a statue, as she had been when Laurie had first noticed her. "Let's see," Laurie said. "Eurus is a Greek name," she said, repeating her earlier observation with more confidence. It didn't ... http://tribe.fantasyinminiature.com/chapters/5-24 "Well, then," the girl said to Laurie, "I guess you know what you have to do, then." "What?" Laurie asked. "What do I have to do?" "Oh... I thought you knew," the girl said. She sounded disappointed. "Look, I don't know anything," Laurie said. Her voice was getting louder, less controlled. It echoed ... http://tribe.fantasyinminiature.com/chapters/5-23 "I think the real question is, what are you most afraid of?" a voice said from behind Laurie. She turned to find the girl in the striped socks standing there. By the light of the upstairs windows, it was more apparent that her hair was dyed green. "Certainty," Laurie said. "Finding ... http://tribe.fantasyinminiature.com/chapters/5-22 Laurie had always had an active imagination as a youngster. She'd believed in Santa Claus for a few years longer than most of the children she shared classes with, because she'd never questioned the impossibilities. Her mind had been quite agile enough to deal with the utter contradictions posed by ... http://tribe.fantasyinminiature.com/chapters/5-20 What she was really afraid of, Laurie decided, was finality... no. She shied from that word. It echoed much the same as "dead end". Not finality, but certainty. She didn't know what was happening to her, or how much of it was her overwrought imagination, but if she called out ... http://tribe.fantasyinminiature.com/chapters/5-19 It was time to be methodical, Laurie decided. She couldn’t manage to keep calm, she may or may not have been edging slowly away from rationality, but if she could be methodical about what she was doing, that would as good as faking those other things. She headed back through ... http://tribe.fantasyinminiature.com/chapters/5-18 She was freaking herself out again, Laurie realized. "This is stupid," she said to herself... though very quietly, as she was mindful of the open door. She was just stuck in a really poorly laid out subdivision, probably one that came about as a result of some haphazard rebuilding or ... http://tribe.fantasyinminiature.com/chapters/5-17 Don't panic, don't panic, don't panic... Laurie thought these words to herself frantically over and over again, before realizing that doing this was pretty much a recipe for panic, if not a concise definition of it. I went the wrong way, she thought. I got turned around and again and stumbled into ... http://tribe.fantasyinminiature.com/chapters/5-16