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Spiral Town

  • Writer: Daniel Sullivan
    Daniel Sullivan
  • Nov 29, 2024
  • 1 min read

A small town - really small, thirty or forty family houses - wrapped in a spiral around the town's well. The homes are all townhouses set side-by-side, walls adjoining. The only road into or out of town is the dirt road spiraling in from the outside to the central plaza: a fifty-ish foot wide circle at the center of town.

The homes on the outside have no doors or windows facing the outside, the residents wish to see only each other.

The well has something wrong with it. Maybe it whispers seductive lies all through the night. Maybe the water is an addictive substance. Maybe it mutates people. Maybe those in town that sin in some way cannot draw water from it, and neither can anyone that helps them.

 
 

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