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Because I Held His Name Like a Key

ShortStory 5,750 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources

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"When I met the young Mr. Turing, I had not yet ascended as Autumn’s King. Nowadays it has become fashionable for the sons and daughters of the lesser fey gentry to improve their position in the shifting hierarchy of the Courts by virtue of intrigue, scandal, and the naked blade; but in those times..."

Fairy Tale RetellingQueer IdentityHistorical Europe

More tags 16

Historical FantasyBodily AutonomyConsciousnessElegiacSecondary WorldLyricalLyrical ProseIntimateMelancholicFantasyFirst PersonLiteraryGrief And LossIdentityVoice DrivenBittersweet

Content warnings 3

deathsexual-contentsexual-violence

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