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The Heart That Never Stopped
An orphan finds a glowing bio-mechanical heart in the river and keeps it for 37 years, becoming Lumenvale’s greatest watchmaker. A cozy fantasy story about mysterious Mechanican artifacts, childhood discoveries, and how the coolest things we find can shape our entire lives. Rich steampunk worldbuilding. Continue reading
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The Luminescence of Companionship
Maris Coralweaver’s scales flickered from deep indigo to troubled silver as she descended through the kelp forests toward home. The day’s work at the Reef Restoration Project had been grueling—six hours of coaxing damaged coral polyps back to life, her hands aching from the precise manipulation of healing currents, her mind exhausted from maintaining the Continue reading
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Chapter 1: Final Breath
I died on a rainy Tuesday in a Cleveland parking garage—beaten, broken, and forgotten. But death wasn’t the end. When the Angel of Death offered me a second chance in a fantasy world where size equals power, I chose to become what I’d always dreamed: a giantess. Now I’m Valorie Stoneson, eight feet of muscle… Continue reading
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What the Woods Know
The afternoon sun filtered through the ornate glass windows of his brother’s dining room, casting prismatic patterns across the polished mahogany table that could have seated twelve with room to spare. Garrett Ashwood traced his calloused finger along the table’s edge, feeling the perfect smoothness of wood that had never known actual use, that existed Continue reading
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The Stone-Scribe’s Pilgrimage
Aldwin Quillheart pressed his palm against the warm granite wall of the Great Archive, feeling the subtle vibration that traveled through living stone as Grandfather Ironheart continued his eternal migration across the wind-swept plains of Nomados. The mountain’s heartbeat thrummed through his fingers—ancient, patient, steady as geological time itself—while three hundred feet beneath his boots, Continue reading
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