Short Story Spotlight: Shay and Azure

For someone who considers fantasy to be THE genre, I don't really write much of it myself. Shay and Azure, however, falls unambiguously into this category. It was written in response to the following prompt:

Start your story with two people planting a tree together.

Strange things are happening in the village. People seem to be just giving up on life. Shay and Azure, the most mismatched pair of heroes you've ever seen, suspect that it has something to do with the mysterious trees that they haven't visited since they were children.

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