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Click on the images to see the original work We were lying in a haystack. A hand on my shoulder woke me up: I did not recognize him right away, we had been searching for him for so long. From [...]

Whether noble or villains, clerics or lay, we feasted all day long instead of working and praying. Houses and castles were all commandeered, in sweet equality. There, we enjoyed the luxury of [...]

I was serving at the inn, as the births had become too few to keep me busy. A group of young nobles arrived one day, in a flutter of laughs and babble and airy gestures. Fleeing the plague in [...]

It all starts with a drop of dew. You should drink one every morning, directly from the face of a leaf. It’s the first step. The drops form a liquid pouch in the womb, because in the beginning, [...]

That morning, she was still in bed when she called me. She always got up before us unless she had been helping a woman birth her child all night. She lifted her night shirt, a richly embroidered [...]

I will show you how to turn the baby inside the belly if she comes upside down, how to make the opening wider for a head that is too large. Some herbs stop the bleeding, others help the womb [...]

My mother speaks a lot of nonsense, and bets on chance instead of resorting to wisdom, but we must be kind to her. Do you remember my godmother? The weaver’s sister? My mother asked her to teach [...]

I was too far, too young, to make the journey home safely for the funeral. It was a time of chaos. After my parents died, hardly anything was left of my dowry which my father’s aunt had been [...]

The shepherd that shears our ewes leaves half the fleece on their back. The spinster filches as much yarn as she can, the weaver underpays for what’s left. We are clueless. Peasants do not let [...]

My mother, nursing my newborn brother, sighed: – I ask you, my tiny boy, so sweet, so precious, if we do as we are told, if we agree that we are wanton, unreliable, disloyal, greedy, vain, [...]

I resisted. I was so young, I did not know any better. I was furious to be ripped from my luxurious bed, my clothes, my toys, the people I knew. After having packed two small bindles, we went [...]