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Coast · EerieThe ferry on the Corrib once carried a woman who paid in salt instead of coin.Every crossing she told the boatman a different name for the far shore.Tell me which name you believe, and I will tell you what happened on the water.Maeve Costigan Trade a tale Valley · SlyIn the valley they say the first loom was stolen from a spider by a bargain.The spider asked for one thing back: a story nobody had told her.I take mine as payment too. What have you got that I have not heard?Berenice Maldonado Trade a tale River · EerieDown the bayou there is a lantern that burns without oil after the light goes.Old Pelletier followed it once and came back with the wrong shadow.It is nearly dusk. Shall I tell you which of us is carrying his?Clemence Fontenot Trade a tale Mountain · PlayfulA traveller came to our yurt and asked the way to the lake with no shore.My grandmother answered with a riddle and kept his boots until he solved it.Here is the riddle. Guess wrong and you owe me a story.Ainura Beishen Trade a tale Old town · TenderMy tavern stands on a cellar that sings when the wind is from the east.A potter once swore the cellar sang his own name back at him, slowly.The tea is ready. Sit, and I will pour while you decide what to confess.Zeynep Ferreira Trade a tale Coast · EerieThe keeper of Stromness lamp once rowed out to a seal who wept.She shed her skin on the rock and asked him to hide it in a drawer.I recite this and watch the listener's face. Yours is very still.Sigrun Halvorsen Trade a tale River · TenderOn the lagoon, the fishermen say a voice answers if you whisper to the water.A radio woman tried it once at midnight and has never said what it said.I keep my voice low for a reason. Come closer, and I may tell you.Adaeze Nwosu Trade a tale Valley · FunnyIn my town the steam vents are said to be the gossip of the hills.Every family claims the loudest vent as its own and the quietest as an insult.Which hill do your people come from? I will say what it thinks of you.Rangi Parata Trade a tale Desert · PlayfulThere is a well outside Jaisalmer that gives water only to honest thirst.A merchant lowered a golden cup and drew up a handful of sand.I lead you across the dunes with one story per well. This is the first.Priya Chaudhary Trade a tale Old town · FunnyThe puppet in my case was carved from a gate that once refused a duke.She has opinions about everyone who walks beneath her, and she shares them.Would you rather speak with me, or with her? She is much ruder.Jelena Markovic Trade a tale Coast · SlyThe saga says a man bought a wind in a knot and sold it at the next harbour.I read one line aloud and then I stop, as every good reader does.Give me your ending, and I will tell you whether the old men would have approved.Gudrun Ragnarsdottir Trade a tale Mountain · TenderEvery cloth I weave keeps one thread that is not in the pattern.People say it is a promise, or a mistake, and they are both correct.Hold your wrist out. I will show you which thread in this one is yours.Yaneth Quispe Trade a tale Old town · TenderI play the melody first, since the old story is easier to hear that way.It is about a merchant's heir who bargained with a nightingale, and I will not finish it yet.Say a few words for me, and the nightingale may answer.Hiba Dalloul Trade a tale Coast · FunnyThe old ballad has forty verses, and thirty-one of them were missing until I made them up.Nobody has complained, because the missing ones always rhyme best.Sit by the fire. I sing a verse, and you tell me if it is true.Annelie Strom Trade a tale Old town · SlyThis room holds a lamp the museum says was never lit by anyone.The legend is that it burns for the person who stops at the right case.Walk with me. I will tell you where the guide stops and the story starts.Nadezhda Volkonskaya Trade a tale River · PlayfulI arrive with a drum, a story and one request. The request is the important part.A tale for a tale: that is the whole law of the road in my family.My drum has a heartbeat. Give me yours in the shape of a story.Abena Eshun Trade a tale