linked stories book ideas

Thirteen Ways to Lose a Door

Thirteen linked stories follow people whose doors open onto the places they refuse to name. A carpenter collecting the missing hinges becomes their accidental neighbor.

Seven People Who Borrowed the Same Heart

Seven linked stories follow a traveling heart offered to people who believe they have forgotten how to care. Its final borrower asks whether returning it means returning every feeling it taught her.

The Things We Did While the Kettle Boiled

Six linked stories follow adults during the few minutes before a kettle boils. Small choices about a call, a visitor or a door left open connect lives whose consequences unfold far beyond the kitchen.

The People Who Lived in the Pause

A sound editor discovers tiny communities living inside the silences she removes from recordings. Each linked story follows a resident facing the next cut.

Everybody Brought Their Own Gravity

At an interplanetary wedding, every guest arrives with different gravity. Six interlocking stories follow the people responsible for keeping the celebration and their families on the ground.

The Wedding Guests Are All Weather

A wedding planner inherits a guest list written as weather forecasts. Each linked story reveals the relative or stranger hidden inside one arriving storm.

Please Take Your Doppelganger Home

A lost-and-found clerk must return seven abandoned doubles to the people who ordered them. Each story asks what a replacement does when it no longer wants the job.

The Smallest Possible End of the World

A radio host collects callers' private ends of the world: a closed bakery, a lost dialect, an empty spare room. The final caller knows which ending the host has refused to tell.