Five Minute Stories
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Mother
We go to the bath houses after the healers leave us. She always likes to go…
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Merchant
Her booth is in an alley, back behind the dumpsters. She doesn’t like me to come…
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Cornfield
She’s the one to come looking for me, although today’s fight had nothing to do with…
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Blackbirds
They wait for me in the old churchyard, among the gravestones. Their feathers are black as…
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Dead City
A window is open on the second floor. Most of the doors on these buildings are…
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Seashells
The best time to go for seashells is right after the tide has gone out. The…
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Sunflowers
The sunflowers are growing already. I can see them growing all along the edge of our…
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Crypt
The candles are lit this time. Sometimes when he locks me down here, because I’ve spoken…
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Snow
The storm is on the horizon when I wake up. Low, tumbled clouds loom over the…
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Story Keeper
A bare bulb hangs from the ceiling. Dust ghosts around it, gold in the weak light…