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Please submit one of your own short stories.
Once long ago, there lived a dragon named Esbuch who, every few days would go into the town of Mustuff and steal gold, eat good, kill people, destroy buildings, and wreak havoc. The town was steadily decreasing in wealth, supplies, population, size, and development.
The villagers decided to bargain with the dragon. They told him that they would give him a bar of gold, 50 lbs of meat, five flasks of wine, and one villager every week, delivered to his very own castle, if he would not attack their town any longer. The dragon laughed at their offer and said that the town on the other side of the river was giving him two bars of gold, 100 lbs of meat, 10 flasks of wine, and two villagers every week, along with two castles.
He also stated that their offer had offended him so that next week he would steal twice as much gold, eat twice as much food, kill twice as many people, destroy twice as many buildings, and perhaps burn a wing of the castle when he attacked. The villagers then said that they would give him four bars of gold, 200 lbs of meat, 20 flasks of wine, and four villagers every week, along with four castles. The dragon agreed.
The people of teh town quickly built two castles and gave him two old ones. They always kept up with their payments. One week, the villagers decided that they would not pay the dragon because they thought that they had enough soldiers to destroy him. That week, the dragon stole all of the gold, ate all of the food, killed all of the people, destroyed all of the buildings, and turned the entire town to dust. The dragon's stomach exploded later and he died, too.
