I twisted my mouth to one side, and stared at the coin that I held in the middle of my palm. Continue reading
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The Last Wish of Caducus the Wizard
StandardWhen my grandfather, the humble and ordinary wizard Caducus, first heard the whispers of the afterworld summoning him, he decided to heed the call, but only after achieving his last wish. Continue reading
The Quest of Nine Days
Standard“Is it me, or does it look like it’s breathing?”
Raj placed a hand on his pointed cap to keep it from falling off as he looked up the trunk of the most immense tree he had ever seen in his life. It would probably take fifty kids to stand around it and hold hands to surround the trunk. He gulped. Meg was right. It did look like it was breathing. Maybe it was just because of how big it was. Looking up at it was dizzying. That might have been what was making the tree look like it was breathing. At least, Raj hoped so. Continue reading
The Last Seven Wishes
StandardWhen Azzam was a young man, so many moons ago, he was working as an acquirer of valuable goods when he stumbled upon a small, unremarkable bottle that changed the course of his life thereafter…
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