29th Histoires

A short love story about a boy and his 20th birthday, February 29th. Written for RaeKitano's Leap Year LGBT short story challenge.

Ariston Mallow has always dreamed of being chosen for the Hunger Fames, and when she is, her life turns into a dream. That is until, everyone in the arena begins hunting her, her dream turns into a nightmare. With the help of a close allies and some unlikely friends, will she be able to make it out alive?

Two hundred and thirty-one years ago, on the twenty-ninth of February, marked the night of the rare Violet moon in the Kingdom of Amorea, which happened only once every seventy-seven years. It was that morning when an innocent village woman, named Amethyst Greyhound, disappeared into the forest with the king, King Arrice. The unlikely couple never returned from that dreadful night again! On the morning of the third anniversary of this long forgotten event, a princess is born to the great-great-grandson of King Arrice, stirring up great trouble for the happy parents and their lineage.