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    Winter Branches
    Winter Branches
    Winter Branches
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    Winter Branches

    By Jane Lebak

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    A guardian angel whose charge went to Hell, Reflection is stuck. It’s been two years, but still he keeps thinking about William. Always William.

    He’s not sure he can ever be fruitful again. But someone else thinks he’s a fruitful branch sleeping through a winter season.

    Originally published in The Sword Review magazine, Winter Branches won second place in TSR’s fiction contest and fourth place in the 2007 Reader’s Choice Award for short fiction.

    Winter Branches is also part of the Seven Angels Short Story Bundle, along with Even A Stone, Winter Branches, Hired Man, and eight bonus shorts.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhilangelus Press
    Release dateApr 8, 2015
    ISBN9781942133094
    Winter Branches

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      Winter Branches - Jane Lebak

      Winter Branches

      A Short Story

      Jane Lebak

      Philangelus Press

      PhilangelusPress_P

      Boston, MA USA

      Other Jane Lebak titles:

      The Wrong Enemy

      Seven Archangels: An Arrow In Flight

      Seven Archangels: Sacred Cups

      Seven Archangels: Annihilation

      Bulletproof Vestments

      The Boys Upstairs

      EPUB ISBN: 978-1-942133-09-4

      Copyright © 2015, Jane Lebak. All Rights Reserved.

      By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the author.

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      Winter Branches

      Thank You

      Winter Branches

      A Short Story

      by Jane Lebak

      A guardian angel whose charge went to Hell, Reflection is stuck. It’s been two years, but still he keeps thinking about William. Always William.

      He’s not sure he can ever be fruitful again. But someone else thinks he’s a fruitful branch sleeping through a winter season.

      Originally published in The Sword Review magazine, Winter Branches won second place in TSR’s fiction contest and fourth place in the 2007 Reader’s Choice Award for short fiction.

      Winter Branches is also part of the Seven Angels Short Story Bundle, along with Even A Stone, Winter Branches, Hired Man, and eight bonus shorts.

      Winter Branches

      Please forgive me if I’ve in any way displeased you, Father, either by sin or by disappointing—

      Oh.

      That’s a relief. I figured for certain I had.

      Because of everything else I’ve managed

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