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The Woman Who Smuggled a Wedding Cake cover

The Woman Who Smuggled a Wedding Cake

In an invented border town in 1943, a baker accepts an unfinished wedding cake from a traveler who cannot continue. Delivering it means asking what a celebration can preserve when the people it belongs to are scattered.

Historical fiction
The Saint Who Could Not Lie cover

The Saint Who Could Not Lie

A small-town saint loses the ability to tell useful lies just before a festival celebrating his miracles. The skeptical stage designer asked to repair the event discovers that honesty can be another performance unless somebody is willing to change what happens afterward.

Mythic fantasy
Your Childhood Requires a Password cover

Your Childhood Requires a Password

A memory archivist loses access to her childhood when her subscription expires. Her estranged brother offers his memories of her, but he remembers a different sister.

Dystopian fiction
Your Side of the Sofa Is Missing cover

Your Side of the Sofa Is Missing

A furniture restorer accidentally sells the only sofa in a shared flat. Building a replacement with her meticulous roommate reveals the small comforts they have mistaken for temporary arrangements.

Romance
The Universe Where I Learned to Swim cover

The Universe Where I Learned to Swim

A physicist reaches a parallel world where she made a childhood choice she has avoided ever since. Returning home means choosing which possibilities to keep open without treating another family's life as a better version of her own.

Science fiction
The Bells Beneath the Battlefield cover

The Bells Beneath the Battlefield

A battlefield bell founder hears a warning rising through metal buried under an old victory. Recasting the bells could prevent another war, but every kingdom wants the sound to confirm its own version of peace.

Epic fantasy
The Tree Has Filed a Complaint cover

The Tree Has Filed a Complaint

A town receives a formal complaint from the tree outside its courthouse, alleging decades of selective listening. A records clerk and an arborist must prove who is speaking for it while the public starts pinning grievances to branches that increasingly refuse to stay still.

Magical realism
King of the Unchosen cover

King of the Unchosen

A village cobbler is the only adult denied a hero class at the kingdom's selection. Repairing abandoned equipment begins unlocking skills nobody has ranked, just as the celebrated chosen players return unable to face the damage their victories left behind.

LitRPG
The Moon Is Looking for Its Slippers cover

The Moon Is Looking for Its Slippers

An owl innkeeper finds two enormous silver slippers outside her door, but the moon is too busy lighting the village to collect them. A robot porter helps arrange a gentle delivery, and everyone discovers a small way to make bedtime easier for someone else.

Children's book
The Passenger Who Packed a Black Hole cover

The Passenger Who Packed a Black Hole

A starliner steward opens a passenger's unregistered suitcase and finds a dying galaxy inside. Delivering it safely means breaking a treaty that classifies every world within as lost property.

Space opera
The Spare Room Comes with Applause cover

The Spare Room Comes with Applause

An introverted pianist rents a room above a failing comedy club. The club's optimistic manager offers quiet practice hours in exchange for music that makes his worst jokes bearable.

Romance
The Backup Librarian cover

The Backup Librarian

An archivist must question her own retired AI copy after a book vanishes from a sealed lunar library and every index insists it never existed.

Science fiction
Your Name Has Been Repossessed cover

Your Name Has Been Repossessed

A debt negotiator loses her name after missing a payment. When someone buys it at auction, the buyer begins inheriting the consequences of her old promises.

Dystopian fiction
The Exhibit We Never Finished Arguing About cover

The Exhibit We Never Finished Arguing About

Two adult sculptors reunite to dismantle the public artwork that made their careers and ended their friendship. The residents who lived beneath it have a version of its value neither artist has ever heard.

Literary fiction
The Prophecy Is a Prank cover

The Prophecy Is a Prank

A village potter admits he invented the kingdom's most comforting prophecy as a drunken joke. When its predictions begin coming true, the soldier sent to arrest him discovers someone is spending a great deal of money making fate look inevitable.

Satire
A Portrait for the Unburied cover

A Portrait for the Unburied

In 1896, a portrait painter is hired to paint a living man's funeral portrait. Every sitter she chooses as a reference disappears from the household records.

Gothic fiction
The Prince at Table Thirteen cover

The Prince at Table Thirteen

A private chef discovers the charming man washing dishes at his restaurant has quietly abandoned a royal engagement. Falling in love becomes possible only when he stops treating an ordinary life as a holiday.

Romance
The Typist Who Changed the Weather Report cover

The Typist Who Changed the Weather Report

In 1942, a coastal radio typist finds an error that could send a relief convoy into a storm. Correcting it will reveal the quiet arrangement that has kept her family fed and another family unheard.

Historical fiction
The Fox Who Lost the Word No cover

The Fox Who Lost the Word No

A helpful adult fox wakes unable to say no and volunteers for every job in the wood. His friends must help him find the missing word without deciding his answer for him.

Children's book
The Compass Points at My Ex cover

The Compass Points at My Ex

An expedition leader's compass begins pointing toward the partner who abandoned her last voyage. Reaching a lost crew requires crossing a landscape that keeps the two adults' versions of the journey apart.

Adventure
The Rooms We Left in Other People cover

The Rooms We Left in Other People

A surveyor catalogs rooms that appear inside people after a separation. Each story follows a different occupant deciding what to keep, what to open and what to stop charging rent.

Short stories
The CEO Is a Very Good Dog cover

The CEO Is a Very Good Dog

A compliance officer accidentally appoints an office dog as chief executive. The dog improves everything until investors demand that he learn to be ruthless.

Satire
The Street That Followed My Mother cover

The Street That Followed My Mother

When her mother moves into a smaller flat, the street where she raised her family appears outside the window. Her adult daughter must decide which neighbors are being remembered and which are asking to return.

Magical realism
His Mercy Is a False Identity cover

His Mercy Is a False Identity

A witness-protection specialist learns the man hiding her has given away his own safe identity to save her. Loving him means exposing the crime that made his mercy necessary.

Dark romance
Death in the Second-Hand Jigsaw cover

Death in the Second-Hand Jigsaw

A charity-shop volunteer finishes a donated jigsaw and recognizes a garden that was demolished before the puzzle was printed. One missing piece marks where the police never thought to dig.

Cozy mystery
The Kingdom That Borrowed My Spine cover

The Kingdom That Borrowed My Spine

A village bonesetter learns the kingdom's mountain range is borrowing strength from her body. The rulers call it a blessing; she calls for a way to keep the land standing without breaking its people.

Epic fantasy
An Ocean with No Other Side cover

An Ocean with No Other Side

A relief captain sails beyond every recorded coast and discovers an ocean that returns ships to the moment they left. Her crew can reach the people calling for help only by choosing a destination no map can own.

Adventure
I Leave the Porch Light to the Moths cover

I Leave the Porch Light to the Moths

A divorced gardener writes poems about the small creatures that arrive when she stops waiting for one particular person, making room for anger, attention and unimportant joy.

Poetry
The Oath Between Our Shadows cover

The Oath Between Our Shadows

A shadow cartographer and an enemy envoy discover their shadows have sworn a peace neither government will accept. Saving the city means deciding whether to trust a promise their bodies made without them.

Romantasy
The Man Whose Tears Became Postage cover

The Man Whose Tears Became Postage

A widower discovers that his tears become stamps capable of delivering letters to places without addresses. As neighbors ask for help, he must learn that grief is not an unlimited public service.

Magical realism
The Town That Elected Its Own Pothole cover

The Town That Elected Its Own Pothole

A road engineer's protest campaign accidentally elects an enormous pothole to the council. The hole keeps every promise, chiefly by preventing anyone important from getting where they wanted to go.

Satire
The Murderer Brought Their Own Chair cover

The Murderer Brought Their Own Chair

At a village hall meeting, an upholsterer notices the victim is sitting in a chair nobody borrowed. Its freshly repaired seat proves someone planned the argument and the alibi together.

Cozy mystery