240A-German Fairy Tales: Man of Glass
Myths and Legends
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The Glass Man
The glass man, he lived in the forest and only showed himself to those born on a sunday between 11 and noon. Peter's first cries had rung out alongside the noontime church bells 19 years ago. If you found the glass man and you sang out a simple poem, you could ask three wishes of him. Days passed, weeks. Every week wasn't harder. His life was still good, relatively. He saw ezekiel solomon and the dancing king each week at the tavern. And the week that had felt not amazing, but not terrible to him, was tarnished by what he could have had. This continued until the week after his twentieth birthday when he decided
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