Sci-Fantasy | Serial Fiction
Second Chances Can’t be Ignored
Chapter 1 — Waiting Out “The Unpleasantness”
On National Story Telling Week, I wanted to start this story I had been thinking about writing for a while. I am not sure I can keep up with any sort of regular schedule, but it will be an ongoing series.
Things had been so quiet, so serene for the entirety of “the unpleasantness,” as her sisters had been calling it, that Francine had trouble believing anything beyond the borders of their estate was amiss. Yet, she was sure something must be happening, or her father, Grantline Honorium Duke of the Nethervale, wouldn’t have sent them all out to their castle at the Nethervale months ago?
She’d always preferred the hustle and bustle of the city to spending time in the country. Her friends were all there; at least they usually were. Maybe they had all fled to their country estates and were stuck there just as bored as she was. With no entertaining alternatives, Francine occupied her time reading the letters she had previously received from Matthew, her betrothed. To her heart’s despair, she hadn’t received a single missive since they had been sent away months ago. The situation seemed dire to an eight-year-old girl(sixteen-year-old in Earth years), which was probably why she read and reread the…
