#romance short story
The Cypress Grove
Genre: Romance/Historical/Fantasy, slightly based on thismythSetting: Greek Anatolia, early 900s, Byzantine Empire
Word Count:7200
Since Halia could remember she belonged more on the land than in the seaside city of Abydos, the tender soil as close to her heart as her mother’s line, who before they became known as healers lived off the land as farmers and hunters. It was here, on the outskirts of Astyra, that Halia was content.
She didn’t need marriage or children or love or family if only she could stay on the land.
Halia didn’t want to knock her birthplace by the Dardanelles. But the young Byzantine medic cherished that innate feeling of home, as she surveyed their dwindling olive groves. In this maternal alcove outside the main city, she felt at once at peace and loved. Nourished by the soft sun, the gleaming rocks, the scent of pine and cypress, and the crisp air.
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