Nickie Kang
Time: Frame
Ken Millington
The Circular Ruins review

This story is about a man who traveled far from his village because of a disease that affected his village, and came to another village that had a temple that was ruined by a fire. He jumped out of his boat and fell into the sacred mud, that healed him from the wounds he had before. He lied down on the floor of the ruins and slept. The minute he woke up, he was healed, but went back to sleep. In his dreams, he would dream of himself as a teacher teaching students, that don't really understand his lessons. He did this every night until he died, and said that this is what the gods wanted him to do.