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Submitted to Contest #321
Maya didn’t notice the window until her third month in the city.Her new apartment was nothing special—just a fifth-floor walk-up with cracked walls and plumbing that moaned in protest every morning. Still, it was hers, and that meant freedom. No roommates. No overbearing parents. Just the hum of traffic outside and the cheap comfort of boxed wine on weeknights.It was on one such night, while leaning against her own window frame with a glass in hand, that she finally looked across the street and saw it.A window, same height, same size, direct...
Elias Dunne lived in shadows.Most people never noticed him. He was the kind of man who could walk through a crowded street without drawing a single eye—his posture slouched, his clothes gray and unremarkable, his face forgettable the moment you looked away. At the Metropolitan Antiquities Museum, where he worked as a night custodian, he was a ghost. The daytime staff knew him only as the man who mopped the marble floors before opening hours, and even then they rarely bothered to nod hello.Elias didn’t mind. He preferred silence.The museum wa...
It started with a betrayal. A faction of supernatural hunters, self-righteous zealots wielding light-forged weapons, stormed into their home under the cover of dawn. They took Hayami first—his little sister, his world—because a prophecy whispered of her becoming something they feared. Nyra, his heart and tether, fought back, but their magic burned her, left her writhing in agony before they dragged her away. Katsuro arrived too late to stop it.He followed their trail for weeks, every lead dripping with their cruelty. He found shattered remna...
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