the stone soup short story

When you were a kid, you lived with your grandmother in the small town of Silvertree, on the edge of a magical forest. Grandma is a witch, and she taught you how to use your magic to affect the natural world, too. “Magic is a part of you,” she always told you. “Learning how to use it means figuring out who you are.” Now you’re 19 and on your own. After years of living in the forest while you perfected your witchcraft, you’ve returned to take care of your grandmother’s house and crow-familiar while she’s gone. Figuring out who you are feels more important than ever - not to mention, figuring out what Silvertree is. A lot is just as you remembered: the friendly generous next-door neighbors with a kid just your age, the proud town council, the quaint little shops with quirky punny names, the gentle shadowy forest full of magic.

# VR # MMORPG #LOGINBEFOREHAND # STONEAGE Human Origin: Tribe was a virtual reality MMORPG. The player would start from the stone age, build tribes, and slowly develop their culture. It had attracted countless players of all ages on the day the game was launched and it quickly became the most popular game ever. However, no one knew that the game was actually created by aliens using a high-dimension technology called the Knowledge Child. Just a year after the game was launched, it started to devour reality. Chen Ran was a high-level player and was regressed back to the day before the launch. He was able to enter the game earlier than others. [SSS-grade Unit: Stainless Giant.] [Effect: Build 10000x faster and gives all the buildings a 10000x boost.] [SSS-grade Land: Elf’s Forest.] [Effect: Farming speed and production rate increased by 10000x.] [SSS-grade Wonder: Light of Civilization.] [Effect: 10000x increase for the land to philosophers, literateurs, scientists and other professionals that would lead the growth of a civilization.] He took all of those things before others could even learn of them. A year later, the game was finally officially launched. When the players logged into the game, they were dumbfounded by what they saw. “Are you sure this is the stone age?” Another year later, the aliens were about to invade Earth, thinking that the human civilization had collapsed. However, Chen Ran stood on top of one of the 10 thousand Star Destroyer Canon and yelled, “Don’t look down on us humans!”

Short stories to accompany you.. STORY-1: Falling For The Antagonist, Mr. Choi! Seeing her father getting killed right in front of her eyes, Na Ae Ra swears that she will avenge her father. 12 years later, she finds the person who killed her father, was none other than her first love, Choi Yu Shik. What will Na Ae Ra do? Will she avenge her father or not do anything? STORY-2: Love Me Harder Song Yu Qi, a high school graduate gets married to a man whom she barely knows. Without knowing much about him, she soon falls in love with him. Since then, a cute give and take relationship starts in between the two. STORY-3: The Promise Baek Ji Ah and Kang Minhyuk were living happily married for a year until, Baek Ji Ah's long-lost childhood friend, Lee In Joon appears and their married life crumbles. Will Ji Ah be able to amend her broken heart by finding love in her childhood friend's embrace or get back with her husband? STORY-4: An Unexpected Proposal Han Sora always had a crush on Lee Yi Kyung since high school and she even encourages herself to propose him on the graduation day but instead gets proposed by Yi Kyung's elder brother, Lee Junsu... Will Sora's heart melt with Junsu's flowing love? Or Does Junsu's heart gets broken into pieces? STORY-5: Love Amidst Investigation Park Ji Hyun is a detective who has been framed for killing her own brother. While running away from being caught, she meets a handsome young man, Han Seo Jun, who helps her all the time. She falls in love with him and investigates the murder of her brother. STORY-6: I Travelled Into A Comic and Made The CEO Fall For Me Son Mina is a young university students who gets body shamed for being fat and ugly. One day while reading her favorite comic, she travels into that comic world. Her soul gets swapped with the comic's female lead's body. And with that she makes the CEO fall for her.... STORY-7: I Hate You, I Love You Park Ji Sang always loved Kim Yeon-Ah but never expressed his feelings towards her and they remain friends. Due to a certain incident, Yeon-Ah slaps him and starts to hate him. Five years later, they meet again and this time Ji Sang tries his best to express his feelings towards her. STORY-8: Forbidden Relationship Despite of being married, Choi Ah-Yeong cheats behind her husband’s back. Not because he is a bad person but because she again has feelings for her ex who returned back. Will Ah-Yeong leave her husband, Jung Sang Hoon for her ex, Kang Dae Hyun? STORY-9: Feelings Rekindled Byeon Da-Jung and Yang Woo-Jin were married to one another but they divorced soon after four years. Four years later, they meet again due to some circumstances and realize the mistakes they did and that they still have feelings for one another. Will they get back with one another or go separate ways? NOTE: This book is still under progress so, I apologize to make you all wait! Thank you for your love and support! Stay safe and take care y'all!!!

Min's system, System #151044, is tired of watching him get girls and make dumb decisions yet still manage to defeat the villain. If only he was the villain, there's no way Min would win. His wish was granted. He now upgraded from a bodyless helper system to the evil villain, Ronin Dreadborne! ----------------------------- After getting murdered and reincarnating as a system inside a Hero Transmigrating Machine, System #151044 spent thousands of years wondering why he had such a cruel fate to be a system for incompetent transmigrators like this. But the worst is Min Cheng............ Because Min Cheng spends all his Hero points on girls instead of leveling up! And he is the dumbest transmigrators he ever met! But through a rogue system that gave them a code to free themselves from their roles as a system, System #151044 was able to transform into Min Cheng's enemy on the next world, Ronin Dreadborne, in a mage fantasy world! [Fate itself is evil. The only true enemy is fate, and I have defeated it.] [And I shall teach you how to defeat it too. I will be giving you the gift of freedom. ] [Be the master of your fate like you were always meant to be. And conquer those who try to stand in your way.] That is exactly what he did as Ronin, and to defeat an evil fate, you have to be evil yourself! "I will be the best villain in all the dimensions! Watch out, Min Cheng! I'm coming for you!" ---------------------------- Disclaimer: This book has a villain MC, and he is pretty cold and ruthless and cares about nothing besides killing Min Cheng at the start. However, his character will be developed, so if you're expecting this to just be an evil MC power fantasy althroughout, you're out of luck. There's no romance though, if that is what you are dreading about. No girl would change him or anything like that. There would a lot of violence, gore, and strong language. ------------------- Publishes 1 chapter every day

A series of short stories, of different genres. Simple yet thought-provoking reads.

{Warning!} If you like fantasy concepts that are quite different, you can try this out, my friends! Conspiracies, wars between Empires that sacrifice many lives, battles between powerful people that cause the earth and the sky to shake! Of course, the various scenes of {R-18}{Yandere}must be something that must appear in the fantasy genre, right? Hahaha If you're interested, this is something to try! ------------------------------------------------ Zayn, a successful second-generation individual who excelled in various fields and was often referred to as the "Perfect Human" due to his mastery, was tragically killed by his former fiancée. The cancellation of their engagement led to his ex-fiancée developing an obsessive love for him, which ultimately drove her to stab him in the heart, resulting in his demise. ''Honey~ I won't let you go, even after death!" Upon his death, he found himself reincarnated into a fantasy world novel he had once read. This time, he was reborn as Arthur, a character destined to be a mere side villain and stepping stone. Determined to rewrite his destiny and not be a pawn for the protagonist, he vowed, "I will alter my fate and ascend to the pinnacle of this existence. The protagonist? Let's see who the true protagonist is now!" A journey against fate in a fantasy world where the strong eat the weak... Begins! ------------------------------- Note: [Humm the cover image is not mine and if anyone who has it asks, of course, I'll change it! Thank you!]

Warning contains mature content. Not for underage Emperor Heng the Thousand Flames murdered his six crippled children. But one of them managed to survive because of Supreme Emperor Liang's kindness. That kid who was the stupidest had ventured to come to the seventh wing of the empyrean to ask for Emperor Hen's recognition. But Emperor Heng refused, even planning something to kill her. At the last moment, she fled and took the White Qin Stone by swallowing it. Because of it she suddenly became a genius in all fields. Her brain was very intelligent, her motor skills were perfect, and her spiritual knowledge abilities were high. She thought it was over. By escaping to earth she thought she would be able to live in peace. But it didn't. Emperor Heng had restrained one of her souls in the seventh wing of the empyrean palace, thus making her always tormented if she used the power of the White Qin Stone. When she wanted to return it, it turned out that it had fused into her body, in other words, the pain and suffering would be eternal. But she insisted on ending the suffering. What should she do? And can a handsome crown prince who always fights with her be able to give her a solution? ***

When the seal stone reaches its true seal, the apocalypse must break. At the end of every apocalypse, there are lives lost. To whom does this honor belong? •I ran my finger around the circle of his tattoo one turn. "Do you feel?" ' I asked bitterly. "There's a big sign right here." If he spoke bravely, he would probably say stamp. Or damn. "You don't see it, but you feel it. It's right here. A rope that wraps you around you." My other hand slipped down Cesur's arm and my fingers tangled in his. “A web that connects everything,” I said, admiring his tattoo. "Just like me." •

A collection of stories from another word

A collection of paranormal short stories ... These stories prove that... Some things which can be beyond your imagination and are mysterious....