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• The Bulging Knapsack

  A traveler burdens himself with reminders of past mistakes and imagined futures until the weight of them brings him to his knees. With the help of a stranger, he learns to lay down what no longer serves the journey.

• The Library of Unwritten Books

  A traveler discovers a hidden library that holds every unwritten story, including his own. When he reads the book that seems to know him better than he knows himself, it vanishes, leaving only a blank page behind. To keep the story, he must stop reading it—and begin to live it.

• Moving the Immovable

  When a fallen boulder seems to choke the life from a village, everyone tries to fight it—except one young woman who listens instead. By following the quiet persistence of water, she discovers a hidden path that restores the stream without moving the stone. 

• The Magpie Maze

  A rope-maker plagued by thieving magpies is given a choice: use her craft to punish, or to redirect. When she answers irritation with curiosity and compassion, her enemies become unlikely collaborators

• The Feast of Ashes

  A wealthy merchant who has never known want is suddenly stripped of his appetite — and forced to confront hunger in all its forms. When he trades places with a beggar, he discovers that fullness and emptiness have little to do with food, and everything to do with how one lives among others.

• Casting Nets

  An aging fisherman who has lost faith in his own judgment is challenged by a stranger to cast his net one last time. When he pulls in more fish than he has seen in years, he realizes the river was never the problem. What had changed was where—and how—he chose to cast.