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Submitted to Contest #320
(AN: Very minor, nongraphic gore) Stay out of the woods, the elders would say. Stay out of the woods, for many a haunted and ancient thing dwells beneath the deep shadows where the sunlight never touches, in the groves where sound is swallowed up by heavy, cloying mist, where a man can disappear.It was the unwritten rule that people of the town did not go beyond the border wall in the forest; a curious thing in and of itself was the wall. It was constructed of round, smooth stones that shimmered when the moon fell upon them at just the right...
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