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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Sea spirits, fallen stars and enchanted forests. Grown-up fantasy in which every character, mortal or magical, is an adult who chooses freely.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Some are mythical, and all of them are adults written as adults.
Not at all; expect wonder rather than horror.