The Court of the Pumpkin King

The Court of the Pumpkin King

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The Court of the Pumpkin King
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River Crossing

River Crossing

A short tale of Life, Death, and Liberty

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Michael D. Moore
May 07, 2023
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This story has a long history going all the way back to my freshman year in undergraduate school. Initially conceived as a hackneyed experiment in transforming the Charon myth to a more modern setting, I later decided to give it a more fantasy “anyworld” setting and recast it to use only sensory imagery, with a rule to describe only what could be seen, …

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