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The Goose Owns the Bank cover

The Goose Owns the Bank

A goose inherits the town bank and immediately eats its debts. The accountant investigating this financial disaster finds that every forgiven loan hatches into an actual possibility, including one future the mayor has spent decades preventing from arriving.

Satire
The Prince of Unfinished Bridges cover

The Prince of Unfinished Bridges

A disgraced bridge builder inherits a title that exists only on the unbuilt half of a crossing. Completing the bridge would let an ancient army claim the living shore.

Epic fantasy
My Ship Has Inherited a Kingdom cover

My Ship Has Inherited a Kingdom

A salvage vessel's adult intelligence is named heir to a failing planetary monarchy. Its crew must decide whether a ship can accept a crown without making every passenger a subject.

Space opera
Father's Other Umbrella cover

Father's Other Umbrella

After her father's funeral, a repairwoman inherits an umbrella that everyone in his town claims belonged to them. Each claimant remembers a different, kinder man.

Literary fiction