Tag: Historical fiction
The Ballad of Pedro the Flamingo
The seas were high, the storm roamed the waters and chased us until we couldn’t see anything besides the spraying foam and the waves that were trying to swallow us whole. We didn’t stand a change, we could only pray to the […]
When the storms hunt
The storms weren’t new. Although they scared the little ones, Ása knew they had been around for years. The sea always warned them in advance so they could herd the sheep together, barricade the doors to the sheds, and bring in enough […]
Damnatio ad bestias, de woorden galmden nog in mijn hoofd. Mijn straf, mijn verdoemenis, het lot dat zich tegen me keerde. De Lotsgodinnen waren wreed om me deze straf toe te kennen, om te sterven in dezelfde arena waar ik zo vaak […]