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    The Quilt of the Fates
    The Quilt of the Fates
    The Quilt of the Fates
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    The Quilt of the Fates

    By R.S. Kellogg

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    Strong-willed Lach serves as a driving force for the Fates.

     

    The three Fates work together in their craft cave to spin, measure, and snip the threads of souls. They each tend to their work and look out for each other as they go.

     

    Usually, Lach keeps things going when her sisters need support. Lach and her strong will and her implacable air and the way she stands day after day on the shaggy carpet which she procured to keep the sisters' feet buffered from the cold rock beneath.

     

    But one day Lach gets the strangest headache.

     

    For a goddess, this is an oddity. But worse, it means letting her sisters help her for a change instead of the other way around...  

     

    If you love stories of Greek goddesses or tales of the Fates, buy "The Quilt of Fate" today!

     

     

    This story originally appeared in Tales of the Fates: Everyday Goddess Stories, Volume 2, by R.S. Kellogg

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR.S. Kellogg
    Release dateNov 3, 2021
    ISBN9798201375683
    The Quilt of the Fates
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    R.S. Kellogg

     R.S. Kellogg writes in the fantasy Breadcove Bay series, as well as exploring other story worlds and non-fiction topics.

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      The Quilt of the Fates - R.S. Kellogg

      The Quilt of the Fates

      by R.S. Kellogg

      Past a vine-covered cave entrance, which was hidden from all but the sharpest of eyes, in the craft room of the Fates, Lach had a headache. She’d looked a little too deeply into the red thread in her hand while preparing to assess and measure its life length, and now the headache was making it impossible to get into the regular flow of her work.

      She set down the thread and the measuring tape.

      The headache was focused in the center of her forehead, and she was fighting off the rising concern that she may need to take a break.

      The craft room of the Fates, where the sisters Chloe, Lach, and Atty spun, measured, and snipped the life threads of mortals and other beings, was designed to be comfortable and supportive of long working hours. Having a headache—or any kind of discomfort, really—was so out of the ordinary for Lach that it had taken a moment for her to recognize it for what it was.

      And she was having a hard time placing why it would be there.

      The room, always a comfortable temperature, with a meditative ambient lighting that was neither the brightness of day nor the full dark of night, was suddenly beginning to feel a little too heavy to Lach.

      The room smelled of textiles—cotton, and wool, and

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