Rising

Everyone who fails badly enough receives a silver ticket to Mirror City, where one life choice can be rewritten at the cost of judging a better version of yourself.

She gets only thirty days of spring each year. The landlord of an old flower shop is the only person who remembers every name the world has taken from her.

A city burns human grief for power. An emotion cleaner finds her dead mother's living dream inside a barrel of ash.

A seaside library appears for three hours after low tide. The first book she borrows records a life that ends at her own funeral.

A familiar place changes one rule overnight, leaving the protagonist to decide which witness, memory, or version of the truth can still be trusted.

A beautiful magical object obeys one clear law and one dangerous exception, both of which seem to know the protagonist by name.

A warm everyday routine becomes an adventure when an old rival arrives with a problem that should have stayed in the last quest.

A familiar place changes one rule overnight, leaving the protagonist to decide which witness, memory, or version of the truth can still be trusted.

A practical bargain reunites two people who remember the same promise differently, and neither can leave without losing something personal.

A broken system rewards failure, forcing the protagonist to choose between exploiting its rules and discovering who designed them.

A beautiful magical object obeys one clear law and one dangerous exception, both of which seem to know the protagonist by name.

A warm everyday routine becomes an adventure when an old rival arrives with a problem that should have stayed in the last quest.

A familiar place changes one rule overnight, leaving the protagonist to decide which witness, memory, or version of the truth can still be trusted.

A practical bargain reunites two people who remember the same promise differently, and neither can leave without losing something personal.

A broken system rewards failure, forcing the protagonist to choose between exploiting its rules and discovering who designed them.