Victoria Rose

Patchwork People (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Once upon a time there was a great big land of very tiny people. They were born pure white. White as sunlight on snow, white as pearls, white as the moon. As they grew they would go through life slowly changing, touching and being touched. Marks would begin to wear on the pure white of their skin, marks suffered when they bumped into one another, with words, with fists, with ideas. Some prints were surface inky, brushed off quickly.

If the skin was sensitive enough though, even a light smack or a few words could leave lasting stains and raw wounds needing stitches. Some wounds sunk deep, transforming the white entirely to new shades, prints, patterns. Some required amputation, some were able to be stitched back together.

Occasionally the damage would be so strong it would show through the makeup or bleed through the cloth everyone used to cover up the marks of their past. When this happened, everyone would whisper to each other frantically, backing swiftly away from the spreading color so they wouldn't be touched. Teams of professionals would be swiftly called in wearing thick heavy suits of gilded armor to carry the imperfect away. Sometimes, the "colorful" ones would come back. They would have thick gleaming white skin and smiles sharp as knives, perfectly beautiful in every way, never talking about what had happened to them.

Others simply disappeared.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Victoria Rose
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781386688303
• Artikelnr.: 54897529

Autorenporträt

Victoria grew up in Ohio, and it was so very boring she read a library's worth of books and dedicated herself to seeing all the places she'd read about. (She's still searching for Narnia but heard The Shire is somewhere in New Zealand.) She studied English and Philosophy at Kent State before running off to join the Renaissance Festival circuit because everything's better with corsets and faeries! After spending years exploring all four corners of the US with some fabulous artist friends, hitting up Canada and Mexico, living off-grid in a tree house, and learning to milk cows on an organic farm, she finally decided she had enough life experience to start writing stuff of her own. She has been published in Ohio G.A.M.E.R.S.,The Del Norte Triplicate, and the website Purpose Fairy. She also loves food, dancing all night and wearing faery wings.