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    Beneath the Trees
    Beneath the Trees
    Beneath the Trees
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    Beneath the Trees

    By Ryan Elainska

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    I should have known better than to go running in the woods after dark like that. Maybe that’s why the storm came—why I found the wood nymph huddled in the wreckage of our barn the next morning. My wife had been fading fast; I could hardly recognize whatever was looking out of her eyes these days, and it was just the wrong time for painful old memories to come knocking at our door. I let the darkness into the house—into my thoughts—and before I knew it, I was losing not just Molly but the spark that made us come alive.

    And there she was: the spirit of the trees, summoning me to recover what she’d lost—and what I’d lost? She wasn’t quite so clear about that part. But just her touch sent me plummeting down into a world I’d never dared to really believe in: the world of the dryads, a world under siege by a dark, foreign power that cares nothing for the trees. And was I supposed to drive it out, to take back what it had stolen? All I really wanted was just to get Molly through these last fews days with dignity, without pain—or that’s what I told myself. What she wanted—I just couldn’t figure out how to give her that.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRyan Elainska
    Release dateNov 19, 2016
    ISBN9780997845815
    Beneath the Trees
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    Ryan Elainska

    Ryan Elainska writes the Her True Name series of short stories and novels, along with other fantasy fiction. In his spare time, he reads fantasy and faerie tales and watches silly big-budget SFF films and quirky indie dramedies, but he's also trying to kick a nasty habit for reading political and social news. He lives in Northern Indiana with his wife Sally.

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