Man in the Stone
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In the foothills next to my ancestral home, there's a tale of a man carved into stone. No one knows how he got there. Who was he before? Why did he stay?
True events inspired this short story. All characters are fictional.
This was a finalist on the Globe Soup 7-day Challenge.
Theme: A twist of fate, Genere: Paranormal
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