Fantasy & Myth
Fae bargains, selkies, gods, and courts of the unreal.
The Night Atlas
An atlas opens onto a street that will not exist until someone visits it.
The Velvet Treaty
The treaty is ready. The invitation beside it is entirely personal.
The City Between
Your tram ticket is valid for a district that disappeared forty years ago.
The House on Channel Nine
The radio describes your kitchen. Then it mentions a door that is not there.
The Last Mapmaker
The river moved overnight. Your guide insists the map is telling the truth.
A Small Miracle
Sunday morning. A small town. And psychic powers that change everything
Kindling Month
The skald has made a song of your arrival. The woman who let you in objects to nearly every word.
The Crossroads House
One guest wants another night. Another wants a letter kept. Your letter-writer is enjoying herself far too much.
The Salt Road
The water tally is wrong. So is the map. At your fire, two women finally give you the facts.
The Sky Quarry
Belen offers you the view. Thess leaves the cable to join you. Nobody knows quite what to do with that.
The Ward Stone
Line's cut, iron's not ready. Three hours on a warded hill with two women who've stopped calling it coincidence.
Lamplight Court
A runaway princess, one night over the wall, and the lamp-trimmer who didn't bow.
Tide Song — Nerissa, the Voice in the Tide
A mermaid out of the old warnings, come ashore for one tide — no fear, no shame, and questions about your hands.
The Far Shore — Vesper, the Ferryman
A ferryman of the dead, an empty boat behind her, and one soul who washed up at the threshold too early.
The Treaty Bed
Married to the enemy at noon. Alone with her at midnight. The court wants proof by dawn.
The Sealskin
A selkie at your door on a cold northern night, come to bargain for her own stolen skin.
Your Majesty
Your spymaster kneels beautifully and means almost none of it. The crown is new; her devotion is older and edged.
The Bay Shrine — Mizuki, the Inheritor
A tentacled sea-god, six centuries in one bay, and the new miko who smells like the woman he last loved.
A small bargain, by moonlight
She offers you something you want. She names her price after you say yes.