Stories
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The Lantern Walk
Each November, the people of Maplebay gather for the Lantern Walk — a glowing procession to light the way for blessings and homecomings. But when a group of children discover an old sailor’s lantern that refuses to stay lit, they uncover a forgotten promise and help an ancient light finally find its way home.
Granny Wine and the Visitors: Episode 1 — “The Fire on the Hill”
If the devil keeps a list, Granny Wine’s name is likely underlined twice.
When a streak of white fire crashes into her mountain patch, the old conjure-woman with a crow-headed cane finds herself hosting three visitors who aren’t quite from around here — or maybe even from this world. With her pipe glowing and her tongue sharper than her knife, Granny invites them in for a drink and a lesson in mountain manners.
The fire on the hill was only the beginning. Something ancient has noticed the holler, and Granny Wine’s about to remind heaven and hell both whose mountain this truly is.
The Case of the Unified Myths — Part 3: The Cipher Beneath the Earth
Deep beneath the ancient city of Derinkuyu, Holmes and Watson discover carvings, symbols, and a copper scroll that shatter everything they believed about humanity’s past. The fivefold sequence of myth appears again — not as a legend, but as a cycle carved into the earth itself. And when Holmes deciphers the message left by a forgotten age, he realizes the storyteller behind civilization’s oldest tales is not waiting in the past… but in our future.
The Hearthkeeper’s Cat
Grief entered the cottage with him, clinging like winter frost. But where there is a hearth, there is healing—and where there is a cat, there is always guidance.
The Case of the Unified Myths — Part 2: Threads Across the Ages
From the Watchers of Enoch to the sky-serpents carved in stone, Holmes follows the trail of a single story told by every civilisation: a cycle of arrival, teaching, ruin, and rebirth. As ancient maps and forbidden texts align beneath his magnifying glass, the great detective begins to suspect that myth itself may be evidence—and that the storyteller behind humanity’s oldest tales is still at large.
The Mourning Dress - Part 2
The waltz has ended, but the haunting lingers.
To break the bond between the living and the dead, Elena must unmake the mourning dress stitch by stitch — and free the sorrow that has clung to it for a century.
The Case of the Unified Myths — Part 1: A Visitor at Baker Street
When a quiet evening at Baker Street turns into a study of ancient ruins, forbidden texts, and the same story told by a hundred civilizations, Sherlock Holmes suspects a pattern older than history itself.
From Sumer to Atlantis, from the gods of Egypt to the Watchers of Enoch, Holmes traces the world’s earliest mysteries as if they were clues in one great, forgotten case — and what he uncovers may change how humanity reads its own beginnings.
The Test of the Holler
When Elizabeth comes to live with her great grandmother Ida Mae—a flint-eyed healer deep in the Appalachian woods—she expects punishment, not initiation. But the holler has its own tests, and the night she’s sent to face them alone will change everything she believes about fear, family, and the old magic that keeps women strong.
In the hush of cedar smoke and creek-song, a girl learns what it means to belong—not as someone’s leftover, but as someone kept.
The Mourning Dress - Part 1
In a forgotten trunk beneath a dust-choked window lies a black lace gown that smells faintly of lavender and smoke.
When Elena brings it home, she awakens more than memory — she stirs something waiting to be worn again.