If someone asks me how I want to die it will be in a unsolved mystery to which even the night fades in comparison

This is a book of short thriller stories.

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A whimsical story of a man living alone in his stone home on a hill.

Relying on his art to keep himself alive, the man is trying to find the spark in his art that people are also looking for.

When mysterious gifts start arriving at his door, he starts to wonder who could be intruding on his isolated life in the wildflowers.

Its not until a humanoid crow turns up at his window, an omen of death, that the man starts to push aside his fears and find the love for art again through a series of exchanges and amusing events with the creature.

With the crow trading its way deeper into the man's life, what will make them stop and see just how life-changing that can be?

This story is the full version of one created for an LGBT+ contest.

A land, split equally in half, is ruled by two children.

The child of the light harnesses the sun and all the creatures belonging to it.

The child of the dark dwells in the moonlight and gives life to night.

When the Moon and Sun's sides bleed into each other, hybrids are formed belonging of dark and light.

How can both children see past thier differences and learn to co-exist?

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This is a contest entry that has been lengthened to be sent to a collaboration for my publisher.

See 'My gift to you (the moon is a thief contest)' in my 'Collaborations' work for the original entry here.

This had been edited out of Penana.