Sticks & Strings

Title: Wings of Fire
Author: etakyma@yahoo.com (and on LiveJournal http://etakyma.livejournal.com/)
January/February 2009 Written for sticksnstrings challenge
Word count: approximately 2200 plus or minus
Prompt: Bang the Drum Slowly, Emmylou Harris
Author's Notes: This was not easy to write. In fact I got about 900 words into it three four times, from three four different angles, and in three four different points along the timeline before this was the one that felt the most "right." The tone of the prompt given to me was quite melancholy. And sad, slow-ish, and sweet.

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