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Series: Ongoing Fantasy serial Drabble fabulist
By Daniel Ausema
Jul 31, 2020
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944 words ·
4 minutes
Photo by CALIN STAN via Unsplash.
From the author: Welcome to the Market of Magical Goods, a serial of brief, fabulist visions of wonder, each exactly 100 words long. A shopkeeper offers you a tincture to drip into your left eye. Will you take it?
Updated Jul 31, 2020 · 110 words (1 minute) · 4 likes · 272 views
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Updated Sep 1, 2020 · 97 words (1 minute) · 4 likes · 216 views
And what will you choose this month? A bauble? A potion? A mystical sword?
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Updated Sep 30, 2020 · 101 words (1 minute) · 3 likes · 214 views
When the storm clouds gather over the market, will you trust their spells? Or seek shelter?
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Updated Oct 30, 2020 · 105 words (1 minute) · 3 likes · 209 views
A time may come when you wish to sell the magic only you know. How will you claim your booth within the market?
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Updated Nov 27, 2020 · 108 words (1 minute) · 3 likes · 185 views
Seek out the fairy-tale booths to cobble together your own legend or folktale.
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Updated Dec 30, 2020 · 105 words (1 minute) · 3 likes · 133 views
For every shopper there comes a time when they look around at the wonders on every side and finally ask themself, "At what cost?"
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Updated Jan 29, 2021 · 101 words (1 minute) · 3 likes · 290 views
Some days the market is a mere plaything for ever-feuding elementals, helpless to their caprices.
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Updated Feb 24, 2021 · 108 words (1 minute) · 2 likes · 167 views
Even the market itself is subject to wild irregularities of magical fluctuations.
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Updated Mar 26, 2021 · 109 words (1 minute) · 3 likes · 94 views
Sometimes what the market gives to shoppers is not what they sought, but what they needed.
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Daniel Ausema writes lyrical tales of other worlds, stories of strangeness and wonder.
Very enjoyable and your choice of words & phrases makes you almost believe that you were at the market yourself
danielausema
August 1, 12:19amThanks!