Stories tagged “lore”
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The Silver Skull
There are twelve of us boys bunked in Cabin 3, the Junior Cabin of the Cherokee Tribe at YMCA summer camp. Eleven of them are asleep. I can hear them breathing, relaxed and easy. Not me though. I know what’s coming. At bonfire tonight Chief Billy...
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To Find a God
What is man that I dare keep from him the fate long ago set to by star and gods? This area, a holy den, this vale on the isle of jade and wood, once held its hand to make soft the drop of one from on high. Long set to a tomb of rock and weed, told of i...
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Wight Light
His flare’s glow revealed a mound of growling white fur. A wide pink mouth yawned, causing whiskers six feet long to scrape its cave’s vaulted ceiling. While Devon’s sphincter held back his liquefying fear, Sunshine screamed. “I...