Stories

Ordinary things that happen to ordinary people. These aren’t legends or turning points — just moments from daily life in the world, meant to show how it actually feels to live in it.

• The Relic in the Bush — A dockworker finds something he shouldn’t have, and decides what to do about it.
• The Quiet Year — An ore refiner’s daughter enters sorcery school in a year nobody else wanted, and where it leads.