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• The Trickster's Mirror

  A mirror promises to reveal the future, to a man certain of success and to a woman braced for disaster. Both visions come true—yet not in the ways either expected. 

• The Bulging Knapsack

  A traveler burdens himself with reminders of past mistakes and imagined futures until the weight of them brings him to his knees. With the help of a stranger, he learns to lay down what no longer serves the journey.

• The Library of Unwritten Books

  A traveler discovers a hidden library that holds every unwritten story, including his own. When he reads the book that seems to know him better than he knows himself, it vanishes, leaving only a blank page behind. To keep the story, he must stop reading it—and begin to live it.

• Moving the Immovable

  When a fallen boulder seems to choke the life from a village, everyone tries to fight it—except one young woman who listens instead. By following the quiet persistence of water, she discovers a hidden path that restores the stream without moving the stone. 

• The Magpie Maze

  A rope-maker plagued by thieving magpies is given a choice: use her craft to punish, or to redirect. When she answers irritation with curiosity and compassion, her enemies become unlikely collaborators

• The Feast of Ashes

  A wealthy merchant who has never known want is suddenly stripped of his appetite — and forced to confront hunger in all its forms. When he trades places with a beggar, he discovers that fullness and emptiness have little to do with food, and everything to do with how one lives among others.