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All the Wishes and Whispers and Sibilant Hisses…

Posted on December 9, 2024 by Sonya Lano — Leave a comment

The Proud Princess continuation is on the horizon, I promise! I was distracted by expanding one of my favorite stories ever, a romantic and faintly gothic fairytale novella… I wrote the bones of this tale one snowy New Year’s Eve,…

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The Proud Princess Underground

Posted on October 28, 2024 by Sonya Lano — Leave a comment

Abruptly, he slowed their descent to a scant and floating sway, as if they were leaves, adrift and weightless, sweeping side to side and spinning in an aerial dance, and if she’d been able to ignore the suffocating knowledge of…

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The Proud Princess and the Wild Boy

Posted on October 17, 2024 by Sonya Lano — Leave a comment

“I’m sorry, princess!” the boy shouted, seizing her hand. And then the ground opened up beneath her. It was simply gone. Screaming, she toppled with him into a void. Continuing the fairy tale which I wrote in Czech and am…

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The Proud Princess and Eluded Futures

Posted on September 19, 2024 by Sonya Lano — Leave a comment

In the image, manacles glittered around her bare feet. A golden choker like a slave band encircled her pale throat. And she sat on the stone floor beside Darian’s chair while he lounged like a warlord on the upholstery, his…

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Dance in These Hollow Walls

Posted on September 15, 2024 by Sonya Lano — Leave a comment

A mysterious lady and a crazy woman wrote a book… Behold! A friend and I have republished a book we co-authored ten years ago 😀 Only she does not wish to claim her writing in it, and so she has…

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The Proud Princess and Her Secret Yearning

Posted on September 9, 2024 by Sonya Lano — Leave a comment

Inevitably, the last dessert crumbled to its porcelain plate, and only he and she breathed into the solitary, crackling silence. That was when he rose, his cloak swishing, honey-gold mask reflecting the fire, and spoke. “Come, I’ll show you…” Continuing…

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The Proud Princess and the Offended, Flying Cat

Posted on September 3, 2024 by Sonya Lano — 3 Comments

“You’re cursed.”“Cursed?” the flying cat in the hat exclaimed.“I mean,” Damarishka said, “you were once human, and he cursed you.” She pointed at Darian.“Human? I hope not.” The flying cat shuddered. “Humans are so un-fuzzy and have a bad sense…

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The Proud Princess and the Mage at the End of the World

Posted on August 26, 2024 by Sonya Lano — 3 Comments

“It looks like the end of the world,” she murmured. “Maybe it will be the beginning of yours,” he murmured back. Continuing the fairy tale which I wrote in Czech and am translating into English for fun! What’s happened so…

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The Proud Princess and the Mage with a Smile like a Poisonous Bloom

Posted on August 11, 2024 by Sonya Lano — Leave a comment

Continuing the fairy tale which I wrote in Czech and am translating into English for fun. What’s happened so far is SO CLICHE! All the cliches, y’all. A dastardly masked stranger ruins a spoiled, proud princess’s ball with a magic…

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Prague, A Place Where…

Posted on August 11, 2024 by Sonya Lano — 1 Comment

Dudes here do construction work in their briefs. I have picture proof! Behold –> Behold, again, the magic up close: legit ripped, tattooed, glistening with sweat. (LOL, the bulge flustered me–I was like, “Someone’s gonna accuse me of sharing obscene…

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