Stretch: The Ever-Folk

Writing Exercise #30

Continuing August, the month of the Blackpage! See the previous installment here. This is the setting for a fantasy story that I am trying to flesh out, so documenting these short stories is helping me to give life to this world before I undertake a story proper!

This is a new kind of exercise—a Stretch. It’s 500 words long, rather than the usual 250.

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