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Yarn Askew

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The Respectable and Entirely Theoretical Spell for Rearranging Reality

Weekly Contest #338

Adam opened the book, a bored look on his face as he flicked through the yellowed pages. He sneezed violently as the cloud of dust hovering around his table grew with each page turn. He scanned through several treatises on the practical uses of first-level magical research. A few enchantments related to metallurgical elemental escalation. And a rather graphic series of drawings on the harvesting of organs from magical beasts. But in the end, none of them held his interest. “Another bone-dry magical academic”, Adam sighed. “All theory and no ...

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I Can Remember

Weekly Contest #333

“Dinner is ready!”, his mother’s disembodied, reedy voice called from the boxy kitchen, followed by an incomprehensible string of muffled cursing. The television blared: “A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter. A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of bu…” The Sesame Street cartoon faded to black as the screen went dark. Lucas dangled the smooth plastic television remote from his hand and let it fall with a soft thump on the old, blue plaid couch. He didn’t bother to stop the remote from sliding across the th...

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