Rejection

Stories tagged Rejection:

• The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter Aug 16, 2025

  

  Long ago, in a time when the world was young and magic still danced freely through the forests of Japan, there lived an old bamboo cutter named Taketori no Okina. Each morning, as the mist rose from the valleys and the first light painted the sky with gentle gold, he would venture into the bamboo grove with his sharp knife, seeking the finest stalks for his craft.

  On one particularly serene morning, as cherry blossoms drifted like snow through the air, Taketori no Okina noticed something extraordinary. Deep within the grove stood a single bamboo stalk that seemed to glow with an inner light, as if the moon itself had taken residence within its hollow chambers. The radiance was so pure, so ethereal, that the old man stopped in wonder.