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The Tinderbox
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Ongoing, Unang na-publish Feb 29, 2020
A novella for the Open Novella Contest III!

Prompt #26: "Every time she lights a match, she escapes into a new world."

My mother loved folk/fairy tales and would read them to me all the time when I was  younger. Now that she's gone, reading these stories with her are some of my fondest memories. When I read this prompt, my mind immediately went to the "The Little Match Girl" by Hans Christian Andersen. That story always made me sad as a child, and I wondered how the girl's life could have been different had she actually experience the things she dreamed of while looking into the flame.

I hope you enjoy reading as Gwyneira discovers that life and wishes are more complicated that we initially imagine.

**Trigger Warning**
There will be some general violence and intimate partner violence in this story. Neither will be glorified, or graphic, but they are present. I know that these are unfortunate realities for a lot of people and that many read to escape the things they hate in their life and I don't want it to take them by surprise.
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Book One of Revolution. June's mother informs her on her sixteenth birthday today is her wedding day. Private conversations in a one-room house are impossible, so no surprise her father did it. It hurt her listening to it, but now she is furious. Selling her for thousands to some creep just to improve their lifestyle. She is shocked it could happen today in New Hampshire. Shocking her mother went along with it because of her arguments against it. Her husband's first kiss broke her out of shock and his transporting the limousine to New York piqued her interest. His promise to leave her rich and a virgin at eighteen, if she desired, still left her planning to run. He teaches her the magic of willpower controlling the universe. Letting her read his mind with it, she sees he has loved her for centuries, so she falls in love with him quickly. She discovers other aspects of time lived as well, both with and without him. The alien energy weapon killing him is one of the worst visions she finds. Seeing the carnage caused by the aliens in a few weeks is devastating via his vision. She can not imagine standing next to him as it actually happens. His visions point to her, preventing the invasion by magic. But he has centuries of magical experience, so what makes it possible for her and not him? She must quickly discover that uniqueness and use it to create a friendship with the aliens before the world as we know it ends. Caution: there are many sex scenes limited to a sentence or thereabout, suggesting you use your imagination to fill in the details. If you are not sexually active or seriously considering becoming so, you might not wish to read them. You also may not understand the reference, as most are as vague as I can make them.
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