JAY JONES

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“Pharos of Alexandria” by JAY JONES

Submitted to Contest #288

There it is again… I strain hard as I’d been doing each night since my awakening a week ago, trying to catch the music drifting in the sea breeze. A song without words, hauntingly familiar yet strange. A melody – no, it was more than that. It was an enchantment that no mortal man could resist. I knew the singers, or at least, I knew of them from my father, the noble Sostratus of Cnidus who had learnt of them from none other than my God-King, his Divine Majesty Ptolemy I Soter, may he rejoice forever among the Gods. As ever, I mourn my lost ...

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