The City Lake
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Complete Tue, May 4, 20211h 39m
Caleb's list of job responsibilities did not include saving his city from a drought. He was as far from the hero type as he could be, starting with muscles and ending with courage. When the ghost hunting club he had joined theorized their plight was due to the paranormal, he went along with it to appease them. No one could predict what he would find on the lakebed, or the path he would have to take to bring water back to the city.
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Word Count: ~20,000
The 2021 prompts #5 and #64 were used in the making of this novella. It was written for the ONC 2021.
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