The Hollow Path: A Short Story
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Long live the belief about the forest.
How it gives and gives, but no one knew that sometimes it can take too.
They thought they understood the woods.
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Officer Jay didn't believe in fairy tales. He believed in evidence and witnesses. So when a child goes missing for three days and turns up at the forest's edge, barefoot and unscathed, he calls it a miracle.
Then she appears. Just reaches for the boy's hand.
And he takes it.
Why did the boy go so willingly?
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📖 This story is inspired by a book that explores Indian Mythology, fixed in the valley hills of its heart. You can find the book link below in every chapter. Have a good read!
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