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The Ash Girl
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MAPS: Chapter 5
Eritrea: Birthplace of Asmeret. How in the world did I come up with that? When this story emerged from my personal journal writing (with a sudden shift to third person) “She stood on the edge of the cliff . . .” I knew we were in Africa, but I had only been to South Africa and I sensed that we were north.
MAPS: Chapter 7
You Thoth Tarot readers may already have visions of Asmeret as a bit of The Hermit dancing in you heads. And you are right.
The rest of you are crying, “Wait! I thought Asmeret was the Princess of Disks?!?”
She is, and more.
MAPS: Chapter XI
Freya, The Fortuneteller, came into this story much as Charlotte and Alicia did—a thin wisp of character whose voice and story grew more insistent until I had to make the space they demanded.