Joshua Timothy

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“The Curse of the Great Eye” by Joshua Timothy

Submitted to Contest #245

The Storyteller took a long toke of her pipe and, blowing the smoke upwards, saw that the sun was already half-obscured by the moon. She looked down at the children sitting before her and said, “Do you know why the streets are fit to bursting with revelers today? Why your mothers and fathers saddled me with you young’uns?”One boy raised his hand. “Because of the eclipse, Auntie?”“Aye,” said the Storyteller. “And do you know why, every twenty-odd years, the moon blots out the sun, cloaking the land in darkness?”The children shook their heads....

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