DRABBLE STORY ARC #1: UNTIL LUCK RUNS OUT

Through the Mysterious Stone Tunnel

A chapter of a ‘choose your own’ story — Drabble edition!

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A stone tunnel curving away in the distance.
Photo by JR Harris on Unsplash

This is a continuation of You Are Dead, a Choose Your Own Adventure Story — Drabble Edition started by Bradan Writes Stories. Find out how to contribute here, or return to the previous chapter: “A Hopeful Voice From Below”, “Seeking Yulia the Blacksmith”, or “Double Trouble–Ninja Fear!”.

You hurry over and raise the trapdoor. It opens easily, but you can’t see a ladder.

Carefully, you begin to lower yourself down, but slip, and drop with a thump. There’s a bang as the trapdoor closes above.

“Clumsy,” says a voice.

You stand up. A stone tunnel. A woman in a leather apron, flaming torch in hand. “I’m Yulia,” she says. “The blacksmith.”

“Ahh!”

She turns. You follow to an underground room. A jewelled dagger lies on a table.

“It’s magical,” says Yulia. “But can only be used once. Death can be beaten! Take it, and run from here.”

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JF Danskin
Choose Your Own Adventure — Collaboration

Writing fiction (fantasy especially) and poetry, enthusiast for creativity, collaboration, community. An Editor at the Fiction Writer's Den.