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    Never Ever After
    Never Ever After
    Never Ever After
    Ebook37 pages27 minutes

    Never Ever After

    By Ruth Nestvold

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    "A Serca Tale" is a retelling of the old Irish legend "The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne."

    "King Orfeigh": A young Irish king has lost his wife to the king of Faerie. Is there any way he can win her back?

    "Happily Ever Awhile": Everyone knows the story of the filthy girl who married the prince by not bleeding into a glass slipper. But what happened to Ellie after the happy ending?

    Never Ever After is a short story collection of approximately 9000 words.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateDec 5, 2014
    ISBN9781301900299
    Never Ever After

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      Never Ever After - Ruth Nestvold

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      A Serca Tale

      I need another drink! the hero called out. He slammed a finely made drinking horn on the table. In the uncertain light from the fire pit, Grainne saw gray hair, wrinkled skin, and thin limbs. The hero lurked behind the fire as visible as air and less vital. She turned to the druid beside her.

      Why did Fionn come to Tara today?

      Daire fingered his gray beard. You know that yourself, Grainne.

      Grainne glanced over to the head of the table, at her father, King Cormac mac Airt. Fionn was seated next to him. The King was richly gowned and jeweled, but no more than the head of the Fianna or his men. The warriors gathered at the table all wore colorful cloaks and polished torques, golden beads glinting in their long hair.

      I want to hear it from you, she murmured.

      He has come to wed you.

      Why doesn't he want me for his son Oisin? Fionn is older than my father. His hair is gray.

      The druid took a deep drink of his spiced wine. It is said he heard the tales of your beauty and decided to take another wife.

      But I have not chosen to take a husband.

      "Perhaps you have too often chosen not to take a husband," Daire said, shrugging.

      Grainne ignored the comment. Who is the one next to Fionn?

      That is Caoilte, the quick-witted.

      And the big, magnificent one with the strange mole on his cheek, who speaks so softly?

      The druid hesitated a moment before answering. That is Diarmait, beloved of all women.

      Grainne called to one of her women and spoke softly in her ear. The maid returned with two large jugs and Grainne stood, taking one herself.

      A drink for Fionn, she called out, from Grainne. Fionn extended his cup, and Grainne approached and filled it. She and her maid continued around the table until everyone's cup was full.

      Grainne returned to the head of the table, poured herself a cup and raised it. Fionn — may you always get what you deserve. You have lived through many tales of tana and catha, cattle-raids and battles. Here's to your own tale of love — a serca tale.

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      Diarmait watched as his leader's chosen wife made her way around the table with the jug of spiced wine. She wound her way through the men like smoke, wafting by them, teasing. Her long braids glowed in the flickering firelight, bright against the checkered green of her tunic. Her hips swayed provocatively. Fionn had been advised well.

      When she came to him, he couldn't resist looking into her eyes. Speckled

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