Page 13 of The Tenth Muse

Warts & Claws Inc. Series

Not So Kind Regards

Not So Best Wishes

Not So Thanks in Advance

Not So Yours Truly

Not So Much Appreciated

Freaks of Nature Duet

Doves & Demons

Demons & Doves

Three Fates Mafia Series

Thieves & Monsters

Killers & Monsters

Queens & Monsters

Kings & Monsters

Galactic Gems Series

Cosmic Kiss

Cosmic Crush

Cosmic Heat

Standalones

Nocturnal

death’s songbird

L.R. Friedman

author’s note

Content Considerations

Death's Songbird is a dark and whimsical Nightingale retelling with themes relating to grief, death, sexuality, and oppression.

prelude

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Not every splendorwas born with wings.

Mine either never existed or they were clipped before I could crawl. Gone, along with the rest of my kind.

The forest nymphs found me left behind at the base of a fig tree nestled in a bed of moss, the tree’s roots tangled up around me like gnarled ribbons. They wrapped around its trunk, reaching toward the stars, branches crawling through the inky night sky.

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