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The Kingdom That Forgot The Sun

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Summary Long ago, in a land where the sky was said to bleed gold at the break of dawn, the Kingdom of Ithralis made a deal with a dying god. In return for immortality, they gave the Sun away. Now the world is forever trapped under a twilight sky. No one grows old. No one dies. No one ever truly comes alive. Centuries turn into millennia. Love decays into memory. Children never start. The stars grow weary of the sight. At the heart of the silent kingdom is King Vaelor the Undying. He was the first to be offered immortality. He was the first to realize the true cost. But the Sun was not taken from the world. It was imprisoned. And the gods do not forget. This is the tale of a kingdom that was given immortality. It was given something worse. Chapter I : When the Sun Went Silent - The Last Dawn Image -  King Vaelor overlooks Ithralis under a dying red sun as a robed woman kneels beside an hourglass and skulls in ritual. But there was a time when the dawn came like a promise. The priest...

The Missing Piece Of The Suburban Labyrinth

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Summary Arthur started with a piece of graph paper. He measured how apart the mailboxes were counted the squares on the sidewalk and drew the curves of each cul-de-sac on Maple Drive. He had always liked Maple Drive. The lawns were always cut to the height the hedges were squared off and the windows were all lined up perfectly.. Now he noticed something. There were houses with the numbers 12 and 16. Then 24 and 28. There was always a number.. It seemed like the house with the missing number used to be occupied by someone who had moved away suddenly. Mrs. Henderson used to live in the house with the number 44. Her being gone was really bothering Arthur. It was like someone was pressing down on him making him feel like something was not quite right. So Arthur broke into her house one evening expecting it to be messy and dusty.. Instead everything was perfectly clean and empty. There were no holes in the walls no marks on the floor from where the carpet used to be. Even the air inside the...