The Mirror Maker
A glassblower in an old city makes mirrors that show people as they truly are. When a masked stranger commissions one, she discovers that some reflections are worth the wait.
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The Sun God's Day Off
Even gods need a holiday. The god of the sun takes one day off in a thousand years and spends it in a seaside café, flirting very badly with the woman who runs it.
Moth and Lantern
In a forest where the trees remember everything, a lantern-maker and a moth spirit strike a bargain: one night beside her light in exchange for one true secret.
Starfall
A star falls into a mountain lake and climbs out as a woman made of light, with exactly one night on earth. The goatherd who finds her has to decide how to spend it.
The Selkie's Coat
On a remote northern shore, a fisherman finds a sealskin coat left on the rocks. Its owner, a selkie, comes looking for it, and is astonished when he simply hands it back.
The Boat Repair
A carpenter spends the autumn restoring an old wooden sailing boat in a harbour shed, under the watchful and increasingly distracting eye of its owner.
Salt and Caramel
Two rival ice-cream kiosks on the same seafront spend a whole summer competing for customers. On the last day of the season, the beach empties early.
SeasidePart 3
Dawn at the Lighthouse
The storm has passed, the sea is calm and Erik's boat is ready to go. The final part of The Lighthouse Keeper asks what happens when the weather no longer decides for you.
SeasidePart 2
Storm at the Lighthouse
Erik has been stranded at the lighthouse for two days. Now a winter storm is coming, and Astrid must decide how close she is willing to let someone get.
SeasidePart 1
Fog at the Lighthouse
Astrid takes a winter job keeping a remote automated lighthouse on the Norwegian coast. The only other person within ten miles is the fisherman who brings her supplies.
Last Tram
The last tram of the night runs empty along the river. Its driver and her only regular passenger, a chef on the late shift, have been nodding at each other for months.
Inventory
Once a year, the two co-owners of a cramped second-hand bookshop stay up all night counting stock. This year, somewhere between Philosophy and Poetry, they lose count.
The Bakery at Five
Two bakers share the dark early hours in a small bakery, kneading dough side by side while the city sleeps. The ovens are not the only thing warming up.
Night Shift at the Observatory
Two astronomers share the long nights at a mountaintop observatory, watching for a comet that refuses to appear. Something else becomes visible instead.
The Gallery After Closing
A night guard and a restorer working late on a damaged painting share an empty museum, a thermos of coffee and a growing fascination that has nothing to do with art.
Island Ferry
The ferry to a small Greek island is delayed for six hours. A woman with a sketchbook and a man with a guitar case pass the time on the harbour wall, and miss the boat on purpose.
Kyoto in the Rain
A photographer on assignment in Kyoto keeps running into the same woman at temples across the city. On the fifth day, in a downpour, he finally asks her name.
The Mountain Hut
Caught by a storm above the tree line, two hikers take refuge in an unstaffed hut with one stove, one bunk room and a long night to fill.
Compartment Nine
The night train from Paris to Vienna, a sleeper compartment booked twice by mistake and two travellers too tired to argue. By Munich, neither of them wants the mistake corrected.
Spring Cleaning
Clearing out a storage unit after a decade, Rosa finds a box of photographs from a summer she has tried to forget, and the phone number of the man in all of them.
Rewrite
A novelist and her former editor, once partners in work and in life, are thrown together again to rescue her overdue manuscript. Some chapters deserve a second draft.
The Wedding Guest
Seated side by side at a friend's wedding, two people who split badly eight years ago have no choice but polite small talk. It does not stay polite for long.
Unsigned
The papers are on the kitchen table, waiting for two signatures. Before they sign, Anna and Marc agree to one last weekend away, for old times' sake. The pen never leaves the drawer.
The Same Café, Ten Years Later
Ten years after a messy break-up, Sofia walks into the café where it ended and finds Daniel at their old table, reading the same newspaper. Neither of them is the person they were.
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