Aldwin Beckett.

Literary short fiction about women. Speculative when the science earns it, fantastical when the world insists, romantic when the lives demand. A novel forthcoming.

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Souvienne
from the novel
2025

The raven perched upon a branch, rustling its wings loudly as it glanced sidelong at me with an eye that glinted like polished jet. Then, without warning, it let loose a raucous caw that made me startle in my skin, perhaps displeased by the arrival of its new neighbour.

Sorry to intrude, I thought wryly, but make no mistake—this place is now mine.

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