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A crow called Voscur terrorises the hedgerow, tearing apart nests and carrying off chicks. A small sparrow named Sasper watches, learns the crow’s habits, and begins a patient campaign of revenge.
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King Richard III sends Richard Taillour west to investigate a seized merchant vessel and the disappearance of two royal commissioners. What he finds aboard the Sint Marie in Axmouth harbour defies all record.
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Rhett Bormis flees through Streindarke’s forgotten transit tunnels after refusing to hide the truth of Charlotte’s death. A stranger named Dove pulls him into the dark.
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A stranded traveller takes shelter at an inn and hears the innkeeper’s dark tale of a murdered duke, a vast and unknowable cook, and a feast that no guest could forget. Based on the #vss365 prompt #divine
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Five children play a counting game on Bodmin Moor above Minions. When the rhyme turns cruel and one of them dies, the survivors bury what happened. Twenty years later, those old words return.
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Chosen, blessed, sky-called. The village sings Pegwyche’s name as she rises toward the floating Rookery of Ninelast. But going-up is not a marriage. Mister Talp, the blind mole groundskeeper, knows what it really is.
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A tithe surveyor arrives in an Oxfordshire parish in 1843 to map every field and account for every acre. The older records name a settlement called Slyne Birch, cleared by a local lord four centuries earlier. The dead do not want remembrance. They want someone to finish their paperwork.
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A minor landholder disputes a royal tax demand and is pushed into outlawry. Based on the 1225 Yorkshire pipe rolls entry for Robert Hod. Could this be the origin of Robin Hood?
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A Pictish chief faces an impossible choice when Anglian raiders violate his daughters and threaten his settlement. An origin legend of the carved stones at Dunnicar, told through the bloodline that survived.
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Nightporter Lysand DaVivi carries three people out of their lives in a single shift. The third warrant changes everything he thought he had accepted.