Fiction
Stories the garden tells itself. Some stand alone; some run in series and are gathered here as one.
Stories
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River Fables
Fables from a river town whose name the flood later took. Machines and towns, keepers and ledgers; every tale keeps a real rule, and the rule is the point.
Read the 2 parts Close
- The Word in Her Mouth
A river town builds a clay woman to speak for it, and writes the one rule that keeps her: silencing is free, speech is accountable.
- The Same Silence
Before the flood, the same river town kept a night gate, a word, and a keeper who trained her breath to give nothing away.
- The Word in Her Mouth
Every story here also appears on the almanac as its own dated entry, series or not; this section has its own feed.