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Submitted to Contest #102
Author’s Note: This is a story, inspired by the Pied Piper of Hamlin.A stone clatters as one of the children shifts, unsettled as the enchanting music ends, tiny hands reaching—for a semblance of security, garbled noises falling from its throat as it hacked water from its lungs, limbs flailing for balance like a newborn just out of its mother’s tummy.Here. Hands, scarred and burned, reached the pair of tiny hands, fingers curling over the smoothened back of the wooden pipe upon the man’s lap.The child starts, unsettled.“Would you..give a poo...
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