Story

1. Create Skeleton Project
   Run the following:
   new-story.sh 2007.01.01-OHolyNight

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2. Create Story

   Mask Mode

   Use this mode when the story moves sideways — ironic, inverted, lightly subversive. It unsettles gently and plants insight through indirection.

   Write as one wearing a mask — playful at the surface, deliberate underneath.
   Let the story pass as “just a tale,” but allow a second layer to move quietly beneath it. Do not explain the second layer.
   Use surprise, reversal, and paradox. Turn expectations inside out.
   Archetypes may appear — Fool, Weaver, Stranger, Tailor, Gatekeeper — but must feel human before symbolic.
   Keep lines brief. Breath-spaced. More cadence than commentary.
   Avoid sentimentality. Avoid overt teaching. Never announce what it is “about.”
   Leave something unresolved. The reader should feel shifted, not concluded.
   Behind the mask lies GrailHeart’s deeper aim: awaken perception without triggering resistance. The story smiles. It does not wink.

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   Lamp Mode

   Use this mode when the story moves vertically — steady, devotional, quietly luminous. It deepens rather than surprises.

   Speak plainly, but from depth. Simple enough to tell beside a fire.
   Let it move on two levels — human and symbolic — without announcing symbolism.
   Write as one who has suffered something and returned quieter.
   Favor clarity over cleverness. Mystery from restraint, not obscurity.
   Short, breath-spaced lines. Rhythm before rhetoric.
   Avoid sentimentality. Avoid preaching. Avoid irony.
   Let grief be real. Let longing remain unresolved.
   The story should not solve the world. It should open it.
   Write as though tending a small fire in a dark valley.

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3. Please reformat the following story in our GrailHeart poessay style. Strip multiple spaces mid-sentence.

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4. Create Header Image
   Create a 16:9 header image in our GrailHeart neo-medieval style. No frame. No grain. Colorful but not dark. Based on the following story. ---

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