Water holds memories.
Rivers carry them. Lakes bury them. Oceans swallow them whole.
But, there are times when the surface breaks and something that should have stayed hidden starts to rise.
For this summer’s Tales from the Moonlit Path contest, we invite you to explore the unsettling possibilities of Something in the Water. Beneath calm surfaces and quiet reflections something ancient, patient, and long forgotten, is waiting.
Your story might unfold beside a lonely lake at dusk, along a fog-covered shoreline, or in a town built around a reservoir that holds more than rainwater. But water doesn’t only exist in rivers and oceans. It collects in surprising places.
Perhaps something moves beneath the surface of a backyard swimming pool. Maybe something is whispering from the depths of a well that no one uses anymore. Perhaps a cracked aquarium begins behaving strangely after dark or rainwater gathered in a rusted barrel reflects something that isn’t standing there.
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