Recursive
As Brian attempts to shape Tobias’s story, the boundaries between creator and character begin to blur, revealing deeper truths about avoidance, shame, and the fragile process of healing. Told with quiet intensity and recursive structure, the piece explores how fiction can become a mirror; and sometimes a conversation, between the writer and the parts of themselves they’re afraid to face.
The Alabaster Compendium
A meticulous scholar obsessed with achieving perfection through dark magic has left a trail of disappeared victims across Victorian London. As he prepares his final, most powerful ritual, a rational detective follows an impossible pattern of evidence that challenges everything he believes about reality. When their paths collide, logic confronts the supernatural in a desperate race to stop a man who has discovered that reality itself can be reshaped—at a terrible cost. A psychological dark fantasy where obsession, horror, and investigation intertwine in the shadowy streets of a city hiding ancient secrets.
The Boy On The Bridge
A teenager rebuilding after a breakdown walks the estuary bridge each day, a ritual of solitude and recovery. One October afternoon, they encounter Daniel Keppler, a former bully, standing alone at the railings. Their eyes meet. No words pass. The next day, news arrives: Daniel took his life that night.
Haunted by the encounter, the protagonist begins to sketch: the bridge, the water, Daniel's unknowable final moments. Through ritual and imagination, they process what can never be understood: two damaged people crossing paths at the threshold, each carrying something too heavy to name.
A quiet story about survival, silence, and the weight of witnessing.
Songs of Emberlain
After she breaks the sealed Archive, Sona must race below the city to stabilise its failing heart. The stakes: a flood of stolen emotions that could either save or undo Caer Selenis.
The Bench On Bramble Crescent
Told from the bench’s plain, wise point of view, this is a small-town elegy and a love letter to the people who notice. When bureaucracy and grief threaten to erase their lives, a community learns that sitting still can become an act of resistance.
The Weaver Of Lost Threads
While the City of Amnesty operates under the Law of Inherent Flaw, condemning individuals whose reflection shows an Eternal Stain, Solen's purpose is to challenge this narrow, dispositional view.
The Beach
James retreats to an otherworldly, unchanging beach—his private sanctuary beyond time—to escape the exhaustion and deep anger caused by his physical disability and the opportunities it cost him. His solitude is broken by a mysterious Stranger who forces him to confront his resentment.
The Cloakroom Ballet
A quiet meditation on parenting, attachment, and the choreography of care.
The Taxonomy of the Unsaid
A five-part meditation on the moments we don’t speak aloud. Each vignette is a study in implication:
The Watchers
A poetic, satirical journey through London’s soul—told by its overlooked animals. This piece is sharp, lyrical, and quietly devastating.
Ginger Retold
A psychological retelling of the Gingerbread Man story. The Gingerbread Man runs not just to avoid being eaten, but because the frantic repetition is the only rhythm that keeps him from dissolving.
Arrivals and Departures
A poignant short story about Dr. Malcolm Forrester, a recently deceased physics professor, who finds himself in a transitional room between the two titular doors.