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Year Eight Stories

  • The Wandering Winsome
  • The Book of the Fairy Azurine
  • The Dark Organ Factory
  • The Whereverwalker
  • The Seven Rings of Necessity
  • The Gingerbread Guard
  • A Crown of Moonbeams
  • Oddnever
  • The Lemonuclear Conductor
  • Pocket Pies From the Pocket Dimension
  • Salis and Dulcine
  • Two Tickets to Dream Sector Disigma
  • The Last Voyage of the Echidna
  • The Magnificenting Glass
  • Pragmata Agnosta
  • A Specter in Amber
  • Why Beauty Sought the Beast
  • The Once-God Rampion

Year Seven Stories

  • The Automated Fortune Line
  • The Swallow Who Was A Willow
  • The Obsidian Tusks
  • John's Fellow Passengers
  • Roxie's Wake-Up Call
  • The Curse of the Tooth Demon
  • A Wish Upon the Fountain Fish
  • The Mage, the Troll, and the Gold Coins
  • The Renegade D.O.R.K.S.
  • The Treasure of Gilda
  • That Which Dragons Guard
  • What the Tiger Remembered
  • The Reptilian Vaudevillians
  • The Thorn Clock
  • Welcome to Thoughtsburger
  • Panofus
  • Magenta Banana
  • Mausefalle Manor
  • The Nanocosmetologist
  • The Moths in the Moon
  • The Galactic Analyst
  • Opossumillo
  • A Most Discourteous Interview
  • The Mind Beyond the Maze
  • My Food Is Speaking to Me
  • The Ogre and the Elf Go To Honeymoon City
  • A Tale of Nine Lemons
  • The Everyday God Who Wished To Sleep
  • The Celestial Gobbler
  • Draugamunninn
  • The Nimasterion
  • Nine Wishes in Three Tales
  • The Mystery of Washing Machine Three
  • When Sun and Moon Fled the Sky
  • The Drummer for Discordance
  • They Linger in the Deep
  • The Waking of J
  • The Cat That Haunted the Mouse
  • The Children of the Rain and the Sun
  • The Incident at Soruquenty Beach
  • Auroramorphosis
  • Jukebox Time Portal
  • Seven Signs of Impossible Times
  • When Serendipity Met the Flower
  • Stranded in the Green and Gold
  • Madeleine Miriam's Pizzapothecarium
  • The Hippocampus and the Menagerie
  • The Juggling Ghost Crab
  • Baron Raven's Magnificent Gift
  • Through the Woods at Night
  • The Mad Tunnel
  • Evil Edie's Surprise Demise

Year Six Stories

  • The Frog Who Foiled the Fantasticator
  • Madam Pantoflae
  • Castle Farouche
  • The Station Companions
  • The Why Winter Challenge
  • Contest Chevelure
  • The Holiday Truce on Stage 34
  • The Visitor on the Valorous
  • The Moonbroch
  • Lost and Found at the Hotel Gloaming
  • The Piecemeal Cake
  • Lexinkeo
  • Starling and Leveret
  • Into Stasis
  • The Antechamber
  • The Shifting Night Anomaly
  • The Magic Triptych
  • The Hollow Temple
  • Behind the Hour
  • The Thief, the Fairy, and the Raven
  • The Mystery on Marigold Drive
  • A Handbook of Universal Truths
  • The Impassable Valley of the Flowers
  • Letter From Self
  • Happy Anniversary, Forever
  • The Watchers of the Whale
  • Longpocket
  • The Bombinating Engine
  • The Fairy Blackberry
  • The Cavern Traveler
  • Astral Andie is Angry
  • The Mystery of Mrs. Highweather
  • Velutinus
  • Jacquery Tattery Maker of Sails
  • The Forest of the Dasollagi
  • The Solar Pepper
  • Lord Orgulous
  • The Last Honest Vampire
  • Lickspittle and Sobersides
  • The Traveler and Her Three Shadows
  • The Last Wish of Caducus the Wizard
  • A Simple Procedure
  • The Cosmic Hourglass
  • All the Mirrors Are Broken
  • The Mora
  • Elevator 6F
  • The Galvanic Ghost
  • Maugre Death We Walk
  • Lodgers in the Attic
  • A Waking Walker in Slumberland
  • A Tiny Man in a Giant Land
  • A Coat for Many Dimensions

Year Five Stories

  • Panfloria Magnifica
  • Spectral Camera Model 57
  • The Singing Safecracker
  • Princess Number Four
  • The Transmutation of Mister Lang
  • This Egg Is Not An Egg
  • Mokkie's Double Diner
  • When The Androids Asked For Hearts
  • Hideous Horace and Beautiful Boris
  • Attack of the Giant Cyclops Worm
  • Inseparate
  • The Remedy Men
  • Lesson Number Undefined
  • The Thief of All Sounds
  • Prosopokaf's Fusion Cream
  • The Black Dwarf Star
  • The Plotz Hole
  • Gamma's Forever Soup
  • The Strange Chamber
  • Anomaly Valley
  • The Architect and the Aristocrat
  • Flickering Frieda
  • Festival of the Triumphant Locks
  • Mysterious Tracks in the Snow
  • One Killer Jacket
  • The Serpent Who Sang Like A Bird
  • The Porphyrion Machine
  • Midnight 45
  • The Mythical Slug
  • The Flight of Flea
  • I Dreamed A Cookie
  • Cloaked in Clay
  • Rise of the Prokaryotes
  • The Salvage of Core 925
  • The Chosen By Chance Dance
  • Transpogum
  • I Surgery
  • Sam and The Sequence
  • Mrs. Santi's Prism Mask
  • The Brontide Beast
  • Neotrillium
  • An Aphid Named Quintillion
  • A Sewing Machine From 1919
  • The Blinding of the Mice
  • The Lady in My Headphones
  • The Caves of Hephaestus Island
  • The Eleventh Arm
  • Mission ICE 19
  • Humans: A Blorgnathian Delicacy?
  • The Haunted Harpsichord
  • The Unstrange Face in the Mirror
  • The Monstrous Men of the Moors

Year Four Stories

  • Age Upon Age of Frozen Sleep
  • The Mirror of Displacement
  • The Incident of the Imp
  • The Quest of Nine Days
  • Unstable Stones
  • Dragons of Verandering
  • April Majus
  • The Fortunate Little Leaf
  • Forsaken Deep
  • The Seeds of Many Worlds
  • Amphora Incarnate
  • The Captain's Creature
  • Giant's Overlook
  • The Watchers of the Western Observatory
  • The Stratus Class Dirigibles
  • Stromascope
  • Sal Saturn and the Planetary Rangers
  • Professor Gadston
  • Breninglas
  • The Makriaziton Mechanism
  • The Door Beneath the Desert
  • The Purple Dust Mine
  • Fanfaronnade
  • The Fairy Between Light and Dark
  • Prisoners of Spiral
  • Ximrahet
  • Marv and the Ghost Shark
  • Summoner of Clowns
  • Sword of the Giant Wizard
  • Doctor Miratio's Cabinet of Imminent Invention
  • Heroes of Anodos
  • The Terrible Mallard
  • Gliese on Earth
  • Nerochroma
  • Great Persidain
  • The Fall of the Mirror-god
  • How The Troubadours Came To Be
  • Mynotragon
  • Chemoimagination
  • Tranenbloud Island
  • The Feast of Paravirneo
  • The Meek Mountain Peak
  • Six Fools and the Dragon
  • My Homunculus Is Malfunctioning
  • The Daring MacAllisters
  • The Riddle of Hyperion
  • Goodhorse Manor
  • The Fly Upon My Mantel
  • The Hunter and the Crypt
  • The Midvale Experiment
  • The Lost Treasure of the Arcadian
  • How I Defeated the Devourer

Year Three Stories

  • The Adventure of the Goliath
  • The Sovereign of Bevoneberg
  • A Potion of Uncertain Fortune
  • The Prince's Proxy
  • Two Tales of Twisted Tradition
  • Alora and the Dream Sand
  • Subway to Yesterday
  • Detective Day
  • The Song That Haunted Sally
  • The Nowhere Coat
  • Bloodhound Brody
  • The Twice-Enchanted Fleece
  • The Protean Scroll
  • The Singing King
  • Mynah
  • The Map of All Worlds
  • Mortesthesia
  • The Cursefall
  • Titan Matter
  • The Wizard of All Ways
  • The Curse of the Gray Hunger
  • The Villager of Tolkus
  • Esmeralda Auricle
  • Oddness and the Rose Pox
  • The Temple of the Gentle
  • The Accountant of Breaths
  • The Never Challenge
  • Dotty Potsy
  • The Phantom and the Imaginary
  • The Lodger and the Host
  • The Lovelocke Fortune
  • Amoeba: A Modern Fable
  • The First Days of Moonlight
  • The Queens of Silk and Apple
  • The City Beyond the Horizon
  • The Legend of Lampaneer
  • The Brothers Joye and Sorow
  • Lantern Light
  • The Smiling Fishwife
  • MacAlastair's Marvelous Photosynthesizing Hominid
  • Glorianova
  • The Magus Node
  • Brother Winter
  • The Blood of Tantalus
  • Alexandra Thrice Was Born
  • Red Hat, Red Cloak
  • The Guardians of Gorgulya
  • The Elementals Gathered
  • A Fairy With A Soul
  • The Waters Are Deep
  • Tortoise, Cheetah, and Lightning
  • The House Where Emmeline Slept

Year Two Stories

  • Glass Guitar Girl
  • A Sword Named Blasphemy
  • The Stone of Plenty
  • Copper Penny
  • The Traveling Gloves
  • The Abacus of Dreams
  • The Queens of Time
  • The Rainheralds
  • A Helm of the Elephant Guard
  • Glyfarien's Tongue
  • The Robot Sphere
  • Where Is Speed's Shadow?
  • Carapace
  • Siren's Song
  • The Defiant Little Giant
  • The Wolf Chair
  • The Witch Rampion
  • The Good Doctor's Tears
  • The House of Frogs
  • Pestilence
  • Substance F-8
  • The Tooth Fair
  • The Shallow Book
  • The Wayfarer's Buckle
  • The Blacksmith's Bucket
  • Felicia Incantata
  • The Archivist of Farthest Star
  • Olatrogon
  • The Prisoner Under The Sea
  • Modern Blood
  • Princess Automaton
  • The Three Invincibles
  • The True Tale of Jack Sprat
  • Chainmaker
  • The Last Seven Wishes
  • Finden's Egg Pocket
  • A Cup of Youth
  • My Lucky Stick
  • A Cage for A Curse
  • The Telescope of True Sight
  • Mission Beyond The Veil
  • Crimson and King
  • The Shallot Pot
  • The Challenge of the Hand
  • The Hamelin Hunter's Pipe
  • A Ladder Into The Clouds
  • Ogre Queen
  • The Midnight and the Derelict
  • The Merchant and the Magician
  • Vanessa
  • The Crown of the Sky-God
  • The Feather of Arke

Year One Stories

  • The Amber God
  • Trifle House
  • Radwin and the Dragon
  • Phantom Heart
  • Ignotus
  • The Last of the Nine Lives Cats
  • The Dolls
  • The Mind-Mover
  • The Crimson Hood
  • The Wandering Star
  • Pertempus
  • Diamond White
  • The Ghostly Knight of Thessa
  • Dragonfly
  • Imberflos
  • Spidercake
  • The Iolyran Serpent
  • The Dreaming Queen
  • The Great Machines
  • Who Is Sylvia?
  • The Scorpion Mouse
  • A Gildenfaere's Gift
  • Daydreamer
  • The Promethians
  • Argilla
  • Nine Hundred Nine Furies
  • Star Cloud Descendant
  • The Bard of Trilenkary
  • The Potion of Allegory
  • Nocturnal
  • The Saltwater Realm
  • Mages, Thieves, and Destroyers
  • The Iris
  • The Queen Remembered
  • The Water Bell
  • The Green Magic Bean
  • The Three Circles
  • The Sorceress Moray
  • Heliotrope
  • The Blue Magic Stew
  • Roland
  • Death and The Healer
  • The Everwalker
  • Vela Natura
  • Thirteen
  • Godsfear
  • The Mirror of Liriope
  • I'm Vanishing
  • The Belly of Boston
  • Salamander
  • The Isle of Mist and Gloom
  • The Red Magic Dread
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Viola

A Specter in Amber

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A young woman wearing late nineteenth-century dress sits just left of center before an alcove with three windows bearing ornate snowflake patterns on the top pane. She is looking down at a book in which she is writing. A candle burns at the bottom left. A ghostly hand presses against the bottom right pane.

I heard her climbing up to check on the source of the clatter, just as I had.  And when I heard Marta enter the room and scream, half of me wanted to turn around and comfort her.

The other half of me wanted to keep locking gazes with the specter that was floating outside the attic window.

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  • Date February 14, 2021
  • Tags amber, ghost, Marta, Miranda, natural, specter, star, unnatural, Viola
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