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    Blood and Ink
    Blood and Ink
    Blood and Ink
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    Blood and Ink

    By Kate MacLeod

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    Sequestered behind screens, shielded from the world, Shiori hates the life of a noblewoman in Heian-Kyo.

    She endlessly paints the mountain home she misses. She longs to convey all, the sights and sounds and even the smells.

    Then she finds a most evocative technique, one that costs her dear.

    A short story from the ornately structured world of tenth century Japan about an unusually committed artist.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRatatoskr Press
    Release dateApr 29, 2017
    ISBN9781946552082
    Blood and Ink
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    Kate MacLeod

    Dr. Kate MacLeod is an innovative inclusive educator, researcher, and author. She began her career as a high school special education teacher in New York City and now works as faculty in the college of education at the University of Maine Farmington and as an education consultant with Inclusive Schooling. She has spent 15 years studying inclusive practices and supporting school leaders and educators to feel prepared and inspired to include all learners.

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      Blood and Ink - Kate MacLeod

      Blood and Ink

      BLOOD AND INK

      KATE MACLEOD

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      BLOOD AND INK

      Morinaga Shiori sighed and shifted her son on her lap. It had been her decision to nurse him, a secret lest the other ladies of Heian-kyo consider her more provincial than they already did, but the never-ending summer heat made it a miserable experience. His sweaty flesh was pressed up against her just when she most longed for nothing touching her but a soft breeze, or perhaps any icy mountain spring like the one back home.

      The memory washed over her. She played with the sensations in her mind, and she knew just what brushstrokes she would use to try to convey the coolness of the water, thick to thin and curving just so. She reached for her writing desk to pull it

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