Tale As Old As Time
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Last published Mon, Mar 1, 2021
Once upon a time, is how the old lie goes. For truth is light as leaves in the current, and time it ever flows.
A mythpunk take on the old fable. A little town, a quiet village, where an inventor's daughter dreams of tomorrow's promise, devouring the literature of the French Enlightenment. Where a damaged soldier learns the greatest struggle could be to refuse to fight. And a prince cursed ponders surrender.
This tale as old as time, this song as old as rhyme, has some darker notes to play.
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