Short Stories
A collection of quiet fiction for curious hearts. Some are soft. Some are strange. Some stay with you longer than you expect.
This is where they live—a growing library of moments and imagined lives, written with care and always evolving. Whether you're here for a single paragraph or an entire afternoon, you're welcome to read at your own pace.
The House Beneath the Maple Sky
Genre: Quiet Literary Fiction · Slow-Burn Romance · Cozy Escapism
Tone: Introspective, Atmospheric, Gentle
A serialized story about one woman’s retreat into stillness, the unexpected softness of connection, and what it means to build a life that finally feels like her own.
The Saltwind Letters
Genre: Epistolary Fiction · Coastal Melancholy · Healing Through Memory
Tone: Poetic, Wistful, Soulful
A story told through letters—some sent, some never mailed—between a grieving writer and a stranger with salt on his boots. Set against the backdrop of a quiet coastal town, it’s about mourning, mystery, and the kind of healing that arrives like the tide: quietly, again and again.
Mothwick
Genre: Cozy Gothic · Autumn Magic · Ghost Story
Tone: Haunting, Whimsical, Atmospheric
In the leaf-littered village of Mothwick, the veil between the living and the long-gone wears thin each October. When the town’s old clocktower begins to ring at impossible hours, an observant girl working at the local archive stumbles upon a forgotten tragedy—and a ghost with unfinished business.
Set among pumpkin festivals, foggy graveyards, and paper-lantern parades, Mothwick is a quiet ghost story about memory, belonging, and the way certain hearts echo across time.
The Apricot Teahouse
Genre: Japanese-Inspired Slice of Life · Found Family · Culinary Fiction
Tone: Warm, Sensory, Comforting
In a quiet Kyoto alley, an aging teahouse becomes a sanctuary for those between chapters in their lives. Through soft conversations, steaming bowls of soup, and the ritual of tea, a young woman rediscovers connection, purpose, and a kind of joy that arrives slowly—like apricots in bloom.
Marblecake
Genre: Whimsical Sci-Fi · Coming-of-Age · Found Identity
Tone: Quirky, Heartfelt, Uplifting
Marblecake is twelve, curious, and… not from here. But no one in the quiet town of Thimbletuck knows that. Between baking experiments, late-night radio signals, and a growing suspicion that she’s not the only one hiding something, she begins piecing together who she is—and why earth might just be worth calling home.
