I Read Stories: Three Songs To Fill Up The Shadow by Spencer Ellsworth

Three Songs To Fill Up The Shadow by Spencer Ellsworth in Beneath Ceaseless Skies

A soldier a preacher and a doctor are being pursued. They find themselves on a ferry. There they tell stories to the ferryman.

The stories are about a golden fiddle that is the nemesis of blackbird death, and also Laila who may be tricked into taking it or may have tricked death and his children, and who travels about, saving lives from death, or not sometimes. Anyway, they have the gold fiddle with them, or a gold fiddle, or something.

The story about the stories gets tricky and twisty.

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