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- fantasyStart →
A young witch finds a map that shows not a place, but a time
- fantasyStart →
In a kingdom, two heirs are born at the same moment — one magical, one not
- fantasyStart →
A pilgrim searches for a temple that appears only once every hundred years
- fantasyStart →
A dragon in human form works as a translator at a port town
- fantasyStart →
An alchemist's apprentice ordered the wrong ingredient — now half the city speaks an unknown language
- detectiveStart →
A private detective receives a letter sealed with his own seal — one he's never used
- detectiveStart →
At a closed winter hotel a guest announces "in three days one of us dies" — and vanishes that same night
- detectiveStart →
An archives researcher discovers that in 1893 his town solved a crime that hadn't happened yet
- detectiveStart →
A journalist interviews a man convinced he died ten years ago
- detectiveStart →
A police inspector learns that the key witness in his case is himself, from a different timeline
- sci-fiStart →
A transport pilot catches a signal from a sector that's not on any Federation map
- sci-fiStart →
A cloning scientist discovers that her last subject is three years older than the original
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Time starts running slow on a research station — two seconds per hour
- sci-fiStart →
Mars-4 colony traffic control receives a landing request from a ship that doesn't exist in any database
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An archaeologist beneath Venice finds not a Roman slab but a processor with a working signal
- horrorStart →
A podcaster records the final episode in an abandoned school — and a comment appears: "play the recording you don't remember making"
- horrorStart →
A young couple buys a seaside house, and every morning at 4:47 a radio turns on — one that isn't in the house
- horrorStart →
An Arctic researcher finds a journal from a previous expedition, the last entry written in her own handwriting
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In the backroom of bar "North" there's a lamp that only lights when no one's there — and the waitress decides to stay the night
- horrorStart →
A child sees his own room on the TV screen — and calls his parents with a one-second delay
- dark fantasyStart →
A mercenary gets a contract to guard the very person he once failed
- dark fantasyStart →
An inquisitor discovers the heretical scripture he must burn was written by his late teacher
- dark fantasyStart →
A self-taught mage in a border village realizes the spell that saved her is slowly killing everyone around her
- dark fantasyStart →
Three mercenaries in the ruins of an ancient temple must decide: take the artifact or bury it — and each of them has a past tied to it
- dark fantasyStart →
A young witch returns to the town where her mother was hanged — twenty years later the villagers have accepted their mistake and are apologizing
- romanceStart →
Two former musicians run into each other on the subway ten years later — they both teach at the same school now
- romanceStart →
The owner of a small bakery gets a thank-you letter from someone whose name she doesn't know — and it's the third one this month
- romanceStart →
An ambitious journalist gets an interview with an author whose books she hates — and realizes after an hour that it's not him she hates
- romanceStart →
A young woman returns to her grandmother's village and meets the boy who used to be her closest friend, now acting like a stranger
- romanceStart →
He writes her one last letter before leaving for the army — and she receives it seven years after he left
- thrillerStart →
An investigative journalist receives a flash drive in the mail with no return address — it contains a recording of her own interview that hasn't happened yet
- thrillerStart →
A passenger on the overnight train notices that every 47 minutes the same man gets up and walks to the vestibule — but never comes back
- thrillerStart →
A programmer sees in her own software's logs a request she didn't make — from her IP, while she was sleeping
- thrillerStart →
A daycare worker discovers that one of the parents brings a different child each day under the same name
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A wife keeps finding things in the house her husband swears he never bought — and they're multiplying week by week
- historicalStart →
A scribe in the imperial chancery in Rome 193 CE discovers someone is forging signatures on edicts — in the Year of the Five Emperors
- historicalStart →
A young Italian woman in 1527 Venice inherits a key to an unknown door — her late husband never mentioned it
- historicalStart →
A junior officer in Napoleon's army at Austerlitz gets orders contradicting the previous ones — and can't tell which ones come from real HQ
- historicalStart →
A Victorian-London maid finds among her mistress's belongings a letter signed with her own name — dated two years in the future
- historicalStart →
A schoolgirl in Petrograd, autumn 1917, sees her math teacher hand a book to a stranger at the train station — a week later the teacher disappears
- literaryStart →
A woman returns to her mother's apartment to sell it — and discovers 47 letters her mother never sent to her father
- literaryStart →
A translator at a seaside hotel translates for a couple breaking up in two different languages — and only he understands both
- literaryStart →
After his divorce a man learns to cook from his grandmother's notebook — and each dish connects to a memory he's working through
- literaryStart →
A young woman rides the train alone from Vladivostok to Moscow — seven days, and each day she becomes someone else
- literaryStart →
Two sisters who haven't seen each other in ten years meet to clear their late father's house — and realize they remember different fathers
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