The Girl Who Gave Her Name to the River
There was once a girl who lived at the edge of a river that had no name, and so neither did she. Her mother had meant to name her something bright — Lena, or Clara, or perhaps Wren — but …
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The Girl Who Traded Her Voice for Legs (And What She Did With Them)
Everyone remembers the ending wrong. They say she dissolved into sea foam. They say she chose love over her own survival and was rewarded with an immortal soul. They make it sound like a gift. Marina remembers the knife. She …
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There was once a girl who lived in a house that smelled of salt and rotting nets, and who had never once been loved the way the stories promised. Her mother had been a selkie — everyone in the village …
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Once there was a girl who was born with a hole in her chest, right where her heart should have been. Not a wound, not an injury — just a clean, dark hollow, like a keyhole waiting for the right …
Read more →The Last Broadcast from Valeria Station
The satellite feed cut out three times before Mara finally got a clean signal. She pressed her back against the crumbling concrete wall of what had once been the Valeria Municipal Library and watched the progress bar crawl across her …
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