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Hello Craftlings, and welcome 
back to the Minecraft Short 

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Stories Podcast. 
In this episode today we have a 

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listener story by Sam. 
It is called The Skeleton's 

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Revenge and I actually really 
like the story. 

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I edited it a little bit, but I 
know you guys would really love 

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it too. 
If you two would also like to 

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submit a short story, go to the 
Submit a short story page on 

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minecraftshortstories.com. 
There's a link inside the 

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description. 
While you're down there, go to 

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the YouTube channel if you'd 
like to see your three or four 

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way collab. 
I will do that at 1000 

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subscribers, so if you want to 
see that happen, maybe click the

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subscribe button. 
Anyways, let's get around to the

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story. 
Just want to apologize 

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beforehand that there is some 
construction inside the 

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background, so if you hear any 
of that, that's what that is. 

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But the skeletons revenge this 
story is by Sam Dusk Fell as a 

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player leaned over the crafting 
table, squinting with focus. 

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He placed the last piece of iron
in the top middle slot and the 

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materials fused together into a 
fresh iron sword, which he 

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picked up with great care. 
After mining the table, he pat 

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his pockets, making sure they 
were still full, and the sat out

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into the night in search of a 
safe place to stay. 

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This player's name was Tom, and 
he wasn't much for fighting. 

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He was mostly for safety and 
tried to make things as safe and

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as protected as possible when he
could. 

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By now the sun was sinking well 
below the horizon and a dark, 

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misty Hayes was settling. 
Tom was trembling and 

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perspiration grew on his 
forehead with every step to the 

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clunky iron boots on his feet. 
Groans and hisses began to 

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appear in the small oak wood 
around him. 

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Beyond that wood was a plain 
spy, him which you desperately 

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wanted to get to so that he had 
open ground, which would make it

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easier to run. 
Bam. 

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Something smacked him from 
behind. 

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He spun around on full alert and
saw a dead eye staring straight 

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back at him. 
It was a zombie, Foamy drool 

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spilt from its mouth and it was 
displaying rotted bones all 

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over. 
He swung this newly crafted iron

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sword, aimlessly striking the 
zombies true in the chest, 

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reducing it to a cloud of smoke 
which twirled off the ground in 

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this small spiral. 
Tom rubbed his back gingerly 

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where the zombie had struck. 
It hurt pretty bad, where, at 

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the end, Tom was focused on 
something else entirely. 

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A crowd of mobs emerged from a 
gap in the trees, cornering him 

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by a large trunk. 
Zombies groaned, spider cyst, 

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Enderman shrieked, and Skeltons 
made their usual click, clack 

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bones smacking against each 
other. 

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Tom backed up against the trunk,
said the Enderman couldn't help 

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or behind him, and then notched 
an arrow on his enchanted bow. 

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He had gone the bow from a 
villager for 20 emeralds back 

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when he had lived in a village. 
He let a few ears fly, killing a

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few. 
Zombies are leading the pack. 

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Sadly, he also hit a wolf whose 
eyes turned red and began to 

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charge. 
He pulled out a few bones and 

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threw one into the woods, which 
instructed the wolf for the time

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being. 
Then he went back to shooting 

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arrows. 
After killing a few Spires and 

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skeletons, he had to reach back 
into his pack to get more. 

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He quickly felt the tip of 1 and
pulled it out. 

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He didn't realize that was one 
of the slowness arrows he had 

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collected from a pack of strays 
to attack him at Snowy Village. 

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A grin spread across his face as
he shot arrow after arrow, 

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harming and slowing the mobster 
curl at the same time. 

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Once they got closer, his grin 
faded and he pulled out his new 

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iron sword. 
Swinging as hard as he could. 

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He charged into the crowd and 
began killing mob after mob to 

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all he could see was smoke. 
Tom leaned against the tree and 

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began to chug down a healing 
potion when an arrow flew by his

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face and planted itself into the
bark of the tree next to him. 

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He sighed and pulled out his bow
once more, sending an arrow 

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flying into the mist here to 
satisfying Thunk, and finally 

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the mist cleared. 
A single skeleton appeared about

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10 blocks in front of him, with 
the air he had just shot lodged 

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in skull. 
Before it could land another 

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shot, Anger skeleton fled into 
the woods. 

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That was all, Tom thought. 
After that, the sun rose in the 

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sky and he set to work on 
building a small safe house in a

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cave. 
By the time he was finished 

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furnishing it and building a 
small safety bunker, it was 

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night. 
He stayed in this house almost 

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the whole night, but in the last
hour a zombie broke the weak oak

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door that was his only 
protection from the woods. 

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After killing the zombie, he got
ready to set up a new door. 

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Just then, the skin, just then, 
the same skeleton he had shot in

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the head entered his house. 
It startled him to see it again,

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even though he knew he can make 
quick work of it. 

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Right before he slashed his 
sword, he froze. 

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He could see a certain fury in 
its eyes they had never seen 

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before on any other skeleton. 
It worried him. 

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He backed up and notched an 
arrow. 

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Instead of going around to melee
right when he shot the arrow, 

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the skeleton shot 1-2 
spectacularly, making the two 

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arrows collide and then drop to 
the ground. 

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Before he could even notch one 
arrow, three of them came flying

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his way. 
He held up his full durability 

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shield, but the ears flew so 
fast that the shield shattered 

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in his hands. 
In the sculpted shot, all of the

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torches that Tom had placed set 
The room then went dark. 

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Tom fumbled for a sword and then
charged to the skeleton. 

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Another error came flying him in
the leg before Calanda hit. 

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He cried out in pain and 
retreated to the far wall where 

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he felt for the bun to his 
bunker. 

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His hand quickly rested on the 
wooden bun and he pushed it 

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down, revealing a secret piston 
door in the wall, which he 

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charged into right before it 
shut. 

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Tom thought of the plan. 
Reaching to his pocket, he 

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pulled out a healing potion. 
All he had to do was make it a 

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splash potion right before we 
reopen the piston door. 

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It opened on its own, revealing 
the skeleton with his hand on 

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the button. 
Skeletons can't press buttons, 

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he yelled out loud, but he 
didn't have time to think about 

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that. 
At that moment he charged the 

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skeleton once more, but at the 
last moment he dropped the floor

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and slid between its legs. 
Then he ran towards his chest, 

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dodged an arrow, and opened it. 
After grummaging around for a 

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bit, he eventually uncovered 5 
blades spider and two gunpowder.

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An arrow struck the chest 
between his legs and he sprinted

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to his brewing stand. 
After putting in the blaze 

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powder and gunpowder, he placed 
a healing potion on stand. 

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Right before an arrow would have
struck him in the back, he spun 

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around and deflected with his 
iron sword. 

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The durability was lowered by a 
lot. 

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He dodged and rolled around the 
room, glancing at the brewing 

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stand when he got the chance. 
Finally, the splash potion was 

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done. 
He worked his way over to it. 

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He snatched it from its place 
and then turned to face the 

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deadly skeleton. 
An arrow flew towards him. 

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He watched as it got closer and 
closer and closer and then Tom 

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jumped. 
He jumped so high that he almost

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hit the ceiling of The Cave. 
The air passed under him and he 

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pulled his arm back. 
Then he rocketed the splash 

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potion he peeling from his hand 
and it sailed towards the 

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skeleton. 
He tried the sidestep, but the 

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potion was sailing like an 
arrow. 

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It hits target directly and the 
skeleton sank towards the floor.

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Tom dropped to the ground and 
sprinted towards the dangerous 

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mob. 
His legs found on the wooden 

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planks that he had placed, 
pulled out his sword and then 

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bam, the only thing left in the 
house was Tom and his small 

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cloud of smoke which twirled off
the ground in the small spiral 

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The end. 
Thanks Sam for submitting your 

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story and thanks to every other 
listener who has submitted their

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story. 
If you two would also like to do

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that, like I said, just go to 
the website link inside the 

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description or go to 
minecraftshortstories.com, which

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I guess is the website, but if 
you want to type it in manually,

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it's Minecraft shortstories.com,
all lower case, no spaces, and 

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then go to submit a story page. 
There's other stuff on the 

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website too. 
For example, there's an about me

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page, there's the latest news 
for the podcast. 

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You can also sign up for the 
bonus e-mail on the podcast, but

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I will see you guys next week.