Short urban fiction by Tonya R. Moore. Download Earthbound Exotica in the format of your choice from Smashwords.
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Embracing
an open baby blue sky
with velvet thirst,
a certain longing
hangs inside my ribcage;
I inherited a yearning
for the smell of the sea
from my father,
who drowned in the bottle,in his need
to swallow up the watery blue;
I cradle the earth
with weary possessiveness.
They happened upon a stall with a straw ceiling boasting a five tiered display of gleaming knives and swords of varying lengths. Each had been crafted individually. Every handle had its own uniquely ornate design. She spied a short sword with a jeweled eye at the hilt. Intrigued, Hel drifted closer. She was reaching out to touch it when the dragon’s potential recoiled.
She wobbled, swamped by a wave of dizziness and that old sea-sick feeling. She cast her husband a questioning look. He was staring dead ahead, unblinking. His staff appeared out of the blue, its blunt tip bored down into the earth. Something popped under there and squealed, a horrific animal sound...
Read the rest of this installment in eFiction Magazine Issue No. 004 (Published July 2010)
Made in DNA and Tonya R. Moore are producing the upcoming Girls With Guns Anthology. The anthology will be available for download on Smashwords. 
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