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The Funambulist Fell to Earth
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The Funambulist Fell to Earth

In "The Funambulist Fell to Earth" a sylph falls into a world of misadventure. Amongst the many foes determined to make a meal of her, are a fox, a dragon and soup witch. This is a world of shadows and doubles where nothing is quite as it seems and the girl must use her wits to dance her way back into the sky.

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Created
Sep 01, 2020
Updated
Feb 08, 2022
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The funambulist fell to earth, her legs trailing behind her like the kite strings of a plummeting kite. As she fell, her body thickened. How heavy it was. How cumbersome, and where was her rope?
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The fox was playing a game he liked to play, jumping in and out of himself in a mindless sort of way, when she came tumbling out of the sky and landed with a bump at his feet.
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A girl. He had never seen anything so ridiculous in his life. She was an ugly sort of creature, misshapen and gaudy, and clearly she had no business falling into their world.
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The witch saw her fall. She could always smell dinner on the breeze.
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As the dragon's steaming breath condensed in the air, shovel loads of hot water fell over the funambulist, melting her free.
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He cast shadows of claws and wings on the ice below.
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Pop in my pot love. It's warm inside. Kitchen's warm. Fire's burning, soups a' boiling. Nice pot of soup. Girlie soup just for you.
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The fox felt a quiver of excitement. He knew that quiver. It began with a watering mouth and ended with a bellyful of dinner.
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She could finally see her; a soup witch. If she believed for one second this witch was her mother she'd be cooked.
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Let them catch me. Let them eat me. I can dance my way out of jaws and pots and mire and cold.
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