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A Dowry of Blood

by S.T. Gibson

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You want to be wrecked quietly, and quickly.

Written as a letter to a dead husband. Constanta was dying in a ruined village when he found her. He saved her, kept her, loved her, and then brought home a second bride, and then a third.

It is short, it is lyrical, and it is about what eternal devotion becomes in the hands of someone with several hundred years to perfect possession.

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