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The Drowned Bell of Brittany

The Drowned Bell of Brittany

In the days when the saints still wandered in sandals and spoke with stones, there stood a village on the edge of the Breton coast called Ys-meur. It was not rich, but it had a chapel whose bell was said to have been cast from silver tears and blessed by Saint Winwaloe himself. This bell did not toll for time
The Fisherman and the Sea Dragon

The Fisherman and the Sea Dragon

In a salt-swept village on the cliffs of Thessaly, where nets hang like prayers and gulls cry omens, there lived a man named Dimos. He was a fisherman, born of the sea and carved by hardship, and in all his fifty years, he had never failed to bring home the

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