Six Scorched Rose by Carissa Broadbent EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Carissa Broadbent
- Language: English
- Formats: PDF / EPUB
- Status: Available For Free Download
- Genre: Dark Fantasy Horror
- Price: Free
- File Size: 2 MB
- Publish Date: March 21, 2023
The first time I met death, it was in my first breaths—or rather, the first
breaths I didn’t take. I was born too small, too sickly, too quiet. My
father used to say that he’d never heard such a silence as when I was
born—several terrible minutes in which no one said a word—and that when I
finally started to wail, he’d never been so grateful to hear a scream.
Death never left, though. That became clear quickly, even before anyone
wanted to acknowledge it.
The truth came the second time I met death, eight years later, when my
sister was born. She, unlike me, screamed from the moment she came into the
world. My mother, on the other hand, went forever silent.
My father had been right. There was nothing worse than that kind of
silence.
And it was in that horrible soundlessness, as I stifled my coughs and my
tears with the back of my hand, that the healer gave me a strange look. Later,
after my mother’s funeral, he would pull me aside.
“How long has your breathing been that way?” he would ask.
Death always followed me, you see.
It quickly became clear that I wouldn’t have long to live. In the
beginning, they tried to hide this from me. But I’d always liked knowing
things. I was bad at reading people, but I was good at understanding science.
I knew death even before I could name it.
But the third time I met death, it hadn’t come for me.
It was given to the town of Adcova like a silk blanket, settling slowly
over our lives, placed there by one of the gods themselves.
Here’s the thing about the God of Abundance. Abundance wears many
faces. The god of plenty is also the god of decay. There can be no life without
death, no feast without famine.
Like all the other gods, Vitarus is a fickle and emotional being. The
difference between excess and absence a mere whim of his moods. Entire
lives—entire towns—made or unmade by a thoughtless wave of his hand.
For a long time, Vitarus smiled upon Adcova. We were a flourishing farm
town, nestled in a fertile patch of land.
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