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FFF Day Eleven: Golden Treasure Box
“A box without hinges, key, or lid—yet golden treasure inside is hid.” So last month I found a GameBoy Advance cartridge at an estate sale. The label said Pokemon Treasure Version, and it had a picture of a Pokemon I’d never seen before. It looked like a treasure chest with lots of gold pieces, each…
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FFF Day Ten – No Adventures
“‘Good morning!’ he said at last. ‘We don’t want any adventures here, thank you!’” I was born under a full moon and a comet that only visits our sky once every six thousand years. I did not cry, or make much of any noise, really, and when my parents looked into my heterochromic eyes (one…
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FFF Day Nine – Beyond
“We are not bound forever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.” Alex Costa had lived a good, long life. When he died of heart failure, he left behind his wife, three children, ten grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren that he had thankfully gotten to see before he passed. He…
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FFF Day Eight – The World Ahead
“Home is behind, the world ahead,And there are many paths to tread“ “The bus gets to the station at 4:27AM. That’s plenty of time to order and eat a pizza.” It was midnight on June the sixteenth, in the clammy basement of the Hodgeson household. Tim Hodgeson and his friends were lounging on the old…
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FFF Day Seven – No Darkness
“In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure.” My fellow Americans, I humbly accept the position of forty-seventh president of these great United States, even though I can only name ten of them: all the famous ones, plus Delaware where I grew up, and Maryland and Virginia because my parents took…
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FFF Day Six – Gold
“All that is gold does not glitter.” Panto held out the torch and inspected the dungeon intersection. Both turns went down too far for the light to reach; it was a tossup. “Left or right?” they muttered to Bridgitte, who followed so close she was practically hugging their backpack. “Um,” she said, a nervous look…