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Jim Stroud

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Sep, 2022

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The Gods of Alkebulan

Submitted to Contest #168

When the world began, who can say? No one living now was alive then. There are many legends on how we came to be; this is the most accepted one. When the sun was reborn and life began anew, gods fell from the sky, their impact made rivers and valleys and mountains. This was of itself, not a strange thing, what was unusual (for gods) was how young they made themselves appear. When they stood up on the ground they landed on, or laid across the air they floated on, or danced atop the waters, they were all children. Some were skinny and others...

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