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Submitted to Contest #301
When the email first appeared in my inbox with the subject line "URGENT: Questmaster Needed," I should have deleted it immediately. Anyone with a functioning frontal lobe knows that emails marked "urgent" in all caps are either Nigerian princes or your mother-in-law. But in my defense, I was three cups of coffee into a Tuesday morning spreadsheet binge, and the mental fog was thick.So I opened it."Dear Mr. Holloway," it began, perfectly formal despite the screaming subject line. "Due to an unfortunate incident involving our previously appoin...
The Faceless God collected souls in glass. Not as trophies, understand, but as necessities—the way a carpenter collects tools, a scribe collects inks. Every vessel was a different shape, each soul a different hue. Some pulsed with vibrant colors; others glowed with subdued light. Together, they lined the endless shelves of the Hollow City, illuminating its obsidian walls with their spectral radiance.Vex was the God's most loyal servant—his Hand, his Voice, his Shadow.And she had just shattered her first vessel.The sound of breaking glass had...
Shortlisted for Contest #300 ⭐️
Chaltier's Well had stood for three centuries at the fringe of Western settlement, neither prospering enough to expand beyond its original boundaries nor failing enough to join the ranks of ghost towns that dotted the region like abandoned chess pieces. The town maintained precisely 1,876 souls – the same count reported in the census of 1876, and every census since.People didn't leave Chaltier's Well. Not permanently. Those who tried found themselves circling back within months, drawn by what locals called "the tug" – a homesickness so profo...
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