We interrupt our regularly scheduled Christmas Flash Fiction stories to host another fine author, Sonya Watson, as part of her virtual book tour for The Tide Breaker.
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The Twelfth Day by Sonya Watson
I hid behind
a rock as the eyes of my brothers scanned the frozen park for my battered body.
The moon had set three times, sleep came but I chased it away and my wings had
been plucked so as to ground me for a period of thirty one days. It was love that forced me to the earthly
plane the humans called Toronto. Although my body was numb, my heart sang as I
thought of his lips pressed against my neck. Our love was the reason I was cast
out of paradise for he was my charge and I was his guardian.
“Emeilia! You need to fix this.” Gabriel’s
anger collided with the air causing his rage to reach the far end of the
snow-covered park. “We don’t have time for this Emeilia. Our brothers are
dying.”
The sound was deafening and his words
fused fear with guilt. The reaper came for my family everyday while I hid from
my fate. “Was I a coward?” The sun was the mother of my brothers, the water bore
my sisters and the earth birthed our enemies. My mother thought it wise to send
me away to the Fire Keepers when the Earth Keepers attacked. When it came time
to return me, they refused and brought war to the land I called home. The women
were killed and the girls were taken. Life was syphoned from our bodies causing
our skins to crack and our hearts to slow. Torture was an art Gabriel mastered
under the instruction of his father. The pain forced the memories of my origin
into the deep crevices of my mind. I was a puppet for I believed what I was
told and heard no lies so my captors became my family until a light illuminated
the deception. Fiction and fact muddled my beliefs for I loved my brothers,
grieved the loss of my family and yearned for the touch of the human who had my
heart.
“I’ll kill her!”
I peeled back the layers so as to expose
my heart to the joy her love would bring as well as the crippling pain of her sadness.
I called on misery when she was conceived for she was the product of forbidden
love. I knew Gabriel would come for her but the pull of Bradley’s lips was far
stronger than my sense of duty. So I did what I felt was right and now my
daughter was gone.
“You’re a terrible mother. Aren’t you
worried about her?”
She was dead. My past was darkened by
misery, my present tarnished by hate and my future doubtful. My soul had been hollowed
out by the man who swore no harm would come to me or my sisters. At that point
in time, it was truth he spoke. The promise was shattered in a matter of seven
days for his father had twisted his insides until the feelings in his heart
were turned to ash.
“Fine. Have it your way?”
Despair, fury and disgust found me all
at once when I heard the pieces of a hard object hit the ground. It was then I
knew what needed to be done. Patience grew weary as I waited for the keepers to
disappear under the cover of darkness. Relief came soon afterward when I no
longer saw the keepers’ lights or sensed their presence.
The packed ice cooled my bare battered feet as curiosity pulled me
towards reality and fear pushed me away. I choked back my sadness with rage. My
child was three months old and I had failed her as a mother for I had allowed the
monster shrouded in darkness to get her. Although I had the love of her father,
it could never be enough. I had experienced what our love had created and to
have it taken away filled me with vengeance. My body faded as I allowed my love
to find Bradley in a tunnel beneath Queen Station. I wrapped my arms around his
large muscular back and without warning my sadness attacked my body, crippling
my legs. He looked at me with his large aquamarine eyes and my core was emptied
of all hatred but my concern for the future lingered.
“It will be okay,” Bradley caressed my
cheek then his fingers ran the course of my bottom lip.
“She’s dead.” I had so many tears and so
little time to cry them for a battle needed to be waged. Gabriel had been a tyrant for more than seven
years and the effects of his rule could be felt as far as the human world. A keeper’s
duty was to be the voice of reason and nothing more but Gabriel had taken it
one step further. The charges under his care were pawns in a game of his choice.
The Earth Keepers thrived on the chaos they caused when they whispered words of
self-destruction into the ears of tarnished souls. Although the Earth Keepers
lacked any sense of morality, in their eyes Gabriel had crossed a line.
“Don’t worry. He’ll pay,” he pulled my
head to his chest.
The sound of his heart beat in unison
with my breath and a clam feeling washed over me allowing for the memories of
the past to come flooding back. Fragments of my soul had been carved out leaving
only a sliver. “I’m sorry.”
“No,” Bradley pushed me away and hurried
to the other side of the tracks.
“I can’t lose you too,” I walked slowly
towards him with my hands extended out in front of me.
“Please. Let me help,” Bradley’s bottom
lip shook as the wells in his eyes overflowed.
“I love you,” I moved towards him as the
light in my soul beamed and coloured the cold damp tunnel a pale orange hue. I
touched his fair skin then ran my hand through his straight dark brown hair and
a surge of electricity flowed from his lips into mine which warmed my very
essence.
“Please. I can’t lose you,” his voice shuddered.
His words made my heart ache so I ended
it. As he fell, I caught him and lowered his body to the ground. I knew I could
remove the memories but our love would leave an imprint that would remain until
the day of his death. Time was left undisturbed as I watched him sleep. I said
goodbye with a kiss then went on my way to do Death’s work so as to deliver
both lands from the evil hands of Gabriel.
****
The Tide Breaker
Blurb: Once upon a time, there was a sixteen
year-old girl that lost both her parents under unusual circumstances. Abrianna
was lonely and found some comfort in the arms of her boyfriend, Michael. Life
turned grim when she realizes that a man, who was once the enforcer of fate,
wanted her to die. The disgraced enforcer had taken great steps to ensure
Abrianna’s death and planned to do this by enlisting the help of humans and
creatures without their knowledge. Evil had washed over the land the humans
named Dainesville. Abrianna had the power to heal the land and when she did she
would return prosperity to the lives of the townspeople. When the time came for
Abrianna to stand alongside her half-brother, Stephen, to fight the coming evil
she did so without hesitation. Life ended. Darkness fell. Love faded. The End?
About Sonya Watson:
Sonya was born in Mandeville, Manchester, Jamaica but moved to Canada eleven
years ago. She discovered writing when she was eleven. However, was unable to
pursue it since she lived in a country where writing was impractical. She
rediscovered the art during third year at York University. Kinesiology, the
program she was enrolled in, was no longer simulating and found herself
questioning her purpose in life. This led her to poetry and poetry led her to
writing novels.
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THE TIDE BREAKER looks like such a very interesting read.
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