Found in an artificial lake in the village. At first, when I saw it from far away, I got really scared. Then I walked closer and started examining it carefully, but with no success.

laughed and named it — an inner tube, nothing more — the spell broke, but not completely. The crowd laughed too, trying to shake off what they had just felt. Yet once fear has wrapped itself around an image, it leaves a stain. The lake became ordinary again, but never entirely innocent. The real lesson didn’t float in on the water; it rose quietly continue reading …