Five Minute Stories
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Water Buffalo
We take them out at dawn, when the sky in the east is red and the…
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Angels
The air smells like antiseptic in the hospital tents. Men lie in rows along the canvas…
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Garden Faeries
I leave a handful of seeds outside my garden gate when I plant in the spring.…
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Spices
We open the stall before dawn turns the eastern sky pink. Grandfather pushes the metal door…
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Smuggler’s Camp
The trucks come rumbling into our camp, dust rising in their wake. The beds are full…
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Gypsy
The fires bring them. Light blossoms into the sky, brighter than the stars, red as the…
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Winter Nights
The wind is howling. I can hear it outside the hut, whistling among the rocks. Blowing…
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Ivy
Don’t step on the leaves. I repeat it to myself over and over again. Don’t step…
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Hiding
In the barn, he tells me, his voice shaking with haste. There’s an old cellar and…
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Lepers
They come with the food at dawn’s first breath, when the light is still weak and…