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crosstowngate 5:51 pm on September 4, 2020
Tags: cup, fiction ( 93 ), flash fiction ( 5 ), Lesson, Short Fiction ( 79 ), tea ( 2 ), village ( 2 ), willful ( 2 ), writing ( 78 )   

Village Daughter: Cup of Tea

Isa Kudo stood in the medicine hut and fumed. She had been called before Otako, great Medium of the village, who spoke for Artart.

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crosstowngate 8:00 pm on December 21, 2019
Tags: Buddhism ( 7 ), demon ( 3 ), fiction ( 93 ), Fog ( 4 ), Lesson, Nin ( 73 ), rabbit ( 73 ), serial ( 73 ), Short Fiction ( 79 ), writing ( 78 )   

Lessons (2)

Nin ran blindly through the fog, away from the meadow and the foxes and their den. He ran so far and so fast that he became hopelessly lost, in the fog he could not tell up from down, left from right.

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crosstowngate 9:38 pm on August 15, 2018
Tags: demon ( 3 ), fiction ( 93 ), Fog ( 4 ), Lesson, Nin ( 73 ), rabbit ( 73 ), serial ( 73 ), Short Fiction ( 79 )   

Lessons (3)

“One day the truth will be so remote that you will resent it for even existing,” said the demon. “When that time comes, little princeling, seek me out and I will tell you the truth behind truths; the secret that lies buried at the heart of the world.”

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crosstowngate 11:31 pm on July 19, 2018
Tags: fiction ( 93 ), Fog ( 4 ), Fox ( 3 ), Lesson, Nin ( 73 ), rabbit ( 73 ), serial ( 73 ), Short Fiction ( 79 )   

Lessons

A fog crept in over the meadow. It was so thick and came so suddenly that young Nin thought perhaps it was smoke from a nearby farmer’s field.

“This is an evil fog, and an ill-omen,” said an elder rabbit. “Let us return to the burrow, little ones, where it is safe.”

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