Tag: short story
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Chapter 3
A wisp of dust swirled and then scattered across the ruins of ash and molt. The clouds finally gave way to the blue of the heavens and the little creatures of the earth that survived the blaze, at last emerged from their hidden dens. The smell of the fires was swept away with the passing of the…
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Chapter 2
Sajaf felt the swelter of the heat even as day crept into dusk. She had woken late from her slumber, the innkeeper loud and the customers boisterously speaking over the walls. It was then as she looked through her window, that Sajaf still the smoke pooling in darkness over the mountains. Everyone at the market had seen in…
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Chapter 1
Dawn cut into day as the wreckage and the smoldering heap of the village beneath Shadowfoot lit the morning with an insatiable blaze. Blood and bones, bodies heaved and cleaved, torsos gutted and leaking, arms and legs and heads scattered in piles, and the crows already at their feast. It was the caws and beaks snapping that echoed into…
Writings by Samson Mousa 