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Saturday's Storyteller: "Yet again she noticed the creature had escaped, a trail of destruction pointing her in the direction he ran off to."

by Belinda Roddie Yet again she noticed the creature had escaped, a trail of destruction pointing her in the direction he ran off to. Pots and pans had been yanked from opened drawers and scattered in a metallic mess on the floor. Both sugar and cinnamon had been spilled from now cracked porcelain jars and now lay in scattered white and brown smudges on the linoleum. A box of crackers had been opened, its contents partially eaten, the crumbs spread out in a circle as if meant to summon some sort of demon. Nexis wondered to herself why she even tried to keep the strange beast with her. She had given him a spacious golden cage, with a high enough ceiling to stand in and all the proper furniture. She had fed it three times a day - meat and cheese and ale, with some dessert if it didn't cause trouble - and even sometimes sang it to sleep. And now it had fled for the fifth time, the padlock undone from its prison, disappearing into the forest beyond the cottage. Nexis fetched the b

Today's OneWord: Prosecuted

Those who were prosecuted and consequently imprisoned by the government didn't expect to see sunlight ever again. Nor did they anticipate feeling the cool air or spray of the sea from their tiny, cramped cells. It wasn't until I freed them - the bars bursting forward like broken ribs, the walls caving in like a monster's rotting stomach - that they actually realized there was hope for them to live again. I led them out into the open air. I led them to freedom.