Spiceely: A Short Story

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One day in a friendly town named Spiceely, two brothers named Lucas and Castro were playing at a park near their house. They decided to play soccer on the field near the park. Lucas kicked the ball a little bit too hard, and it rolled over a hill. The boys ran to get the ball, and to their amazement, they saw a scary-looking mansion. They heard that there was a scary mansion in Spiceely, and they also heard that when people went into the mansion, they never came out.
The two brothers approached the mansion and looked in the window. They saw an empty room with just one grand piano in the far corner. Suddenly, they heard a beautiful sound. The song seemed to be coming from the piano, but there was nobody playing it. They were very curious, so

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