(Originally on writing.com)
I found this really cool book at a flea market. The writing inside was like no language I'd ever seen, but someone had scrawled translations under some of the words. The vendor told me that it was an ancient spell book that his grandfather had tried to translate, before mysteriously disappearing. I thought the guy was just trying to scare me and bought the book.
One afternoon I decided to try out one of the spells. The spell was one of the most translated and it promised to bring the caster riches. Except whoever had translated it had got it badly wrong, because it didn't make me richer, it....
Tue Jul 25 10:22:33 2017