Five Sentence Fiction: “Stone To Flesh”

It has to be here somewhere.

For every spell, there is a counter-spell: magic, like the universe as a whole, requires balance. I have only to find it.

She’s standing there, watching me with unblinking eyes, immobile, caught in a posture of surprise and panic because of my error. Oh, gods, what if it’s in volume two?

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  1. That surely will be tragic, if it is in volume 2 :D The wait can be painful!

    FSF - Unfaithful Love

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    1. Even more so because he lent volume two to a guy who moved away

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  2. Ha ha ha! I do hope it IS in volume two, just for the fact that this can become a longer post ;) Nice read, David!

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    1. Little does he know: not only is it in volume three, it's on the loose-leaf errata page which he may or may not have lost. .

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    1. Thank you very much, I appreciate the kind words. :-)

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  4. Oh, my...I really like this!

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    1. I think between the two of them, she's probably having the worse day.

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  6. Ha ha! This is wonderful.

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