Well of the Ancients
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A short story originally written for the Red Feather Award Summer 2019 Writing Contest.
When a town's only source of water dries up, it sends two heroes on an adventure that could change the fate of the whole word.
The prompt for the contest:
An old book
A broken key
The smell of rain
Cover art by: AJ Ellingwood
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