Two Foxes
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A young minstrel searching for inspiration, finds it in the castle of a wicked king who keeps two cursed lovers as his slaves.
This is a short story I wrote in 2003, I think, and it was published in a chapbook locally as the winner of a local short story contest. I'll be posting it in four parts.
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