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Throwback: Phoenix Feathers
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Today we're doing a throwback episode to one of our favorites from the early days of Stories Podcast. Phoenix Feathers! Fan would really like some friends, and there are lots of other birds around for her to hang out with! The only thing is they think she should be able to sing or hunt or grow really bright feathers, and... she can't. What will she do?? Check out Stories RPG our new show where we play games like Starsworn with all your Max Goodname friends, and Gigacity Guardians featuring the brilliant firefly! https://link...
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Once upon a time, in a sprawling, airy forest, there lived a very plain bird.
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B2 · Upper-intermediate
Comfortable if you already follow TV news
- 94% of the words are B1 or easier.
- 120 words a minute: slow, clear speech.
- 63 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.
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Phoenix Feathers Once upon a time, in a sprawling, airy forest, there lived a very plain bird. Her name was Van, and she was truly the most ordinary bird you could ever encounter. Where other birds sang beautiful, soaring songs, fan could only
squawk and quibble. Where other birds had proud beaks and gleaming talons, she had a rocky stub and scratchy nails. And worst of all, where other birds had feathers and all the colors of the blooming flowers, fan's feathers were the dingy gray of ashes. Life was hard for fan. She had trouble fitting in and was
lonely more often than not. One day, she went to the singing birds, all crooning away in the swaying green limbs of the cypress trees. These birds were white and brown themselves, so she thought perhaps they'd have some sympathy
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