Escape Pod 854: Pickled Roots and Peeled Shoots and a Bowl of Farflower Tea
Pickled Roots and Peeled Shoots and a Bowl of Farflower Tea By Chaz Brenchley there’s rue for you, and here’s some for me Just that morning, she’d had a novice shave her head for her. He was a promising lad - no, more than promising, he was a promise halfway to being realised already - but still ridiculously young, all awkwardness and angles, nervous of his own body let alone anybody else’s. Let alone hers. Of course he’d cut her. She’d felt the cold bite of the blade and then its sudden…
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