Full disclosure: This is a shortened retelling of a story I wrote years and years ago that I never got published. I had to rewrite it from scratch, so I don’t know if this disqualifies me from the challenge.

No one gets disqualified :) I really enjoyed your series. I could kind of see where it was heading after the first ficlet, but you got me with the jump in time and the passing of the torch, so to speak. Great work!
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Oh wow. That was good, more than I’d expected.

Love the series, you have a real flair for storytelling. Nice work.
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Yes, it does seem like a shortened version of a much longer tale, but it is still very well written.
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