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• The Cinder Sweeper

  When a kiln explodes in the Hall of Glassblowers, the cinder sweeper moves with a clarity she cannot explain — and cannot summon again. The fire subsides, the smoke clears, and life resumes as before, but something in her no longer fits the shape it once did. She begins to suspect that what opened in the flames was not a skill — but a threshold.

• The Space Between

  A quiet meditation on the space before movement — where the foot rests and the air listens. This piece moves between free improvisation and a woven canon, circling stillness from two different angles. Enter for a few minutes, and see what follows you back out.

• The Warden of the Gate

  A father comes to a gate to watch for one person and ends by watching for many. Over time, his loss, and his attention, morph into something else.

• The Dinner Party

  A man sits at a crowded dinner table where conversation moves too fast for him to follow. As noise and laughter blur into waves of sound, a small gesture awakens the memory of another table long ago.

• The Woman Who Heard More

  After her husband’s death, Maribel hears what people mean, not what they say — and nothing is simple after that.

• They Simply Light the Way

  A stranger lights harbor lamps in broad daylight, long after they should matter. When a sudden storm blinds boats at sea, those “useless” flames reveal that the acts which seem unnecessary and pointless are sometimes the very ones that save someone.

• The Boy at the Bellows

  A knight, long in search of the Grail King, glimpses something in a blacksmith's shop that quietly unsettles everything he thought he knew about what — and whom — he was seeking.