Accord Hospice 100 Story Challenge #68

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DAY 68

STORY #68

One Man's Bread

The king shook his fist at the walls of the starving town, with impotent fury. For months he’d battered the defenses, to no avail. Now he was encamped with his army, sunlight glittering from ten thousand pikes and swords.

A soldier brought a man to him. “He was taking a cart of wheat to the townsmen.” The king ordered the man hung, and then told his baker to make the troops bread with the wheat. Later that night, groans arose from the camp, and by morning, the troops were dying from poisoned wheat. A dead man had saved the town.