Each optional keepsake purchase helps keep the Mansion’s light on. Enjoy the complete free stories, or choose an edition to keep.
Before We Remembered
A Story of Braedun. The Roman and his Flame.
Across Lifetimes · Fiction · $9 USD · One-time purchase
Listen to the opening · 40 seconds
Read a little of the opening
For all who have found each other across every distance that should have been impossible.
The Roman camp rose in a single afternoon. That alone told you who commanded it.
Where the moor had been wind and heather by morning, by dusk it held trenches cut with geometric precision, timber palisades locked tight, watchtowers staked at perfect intervals. Fires burned in disciplined rows. Tents aligned as if drawn by a draftsman’s hand.
No wasted motion. No wasted space. Order imposed on wild land.
The complete story in two 21-page PDFs: a candlelit edition and a print-friendly edition. Includes the complete narrated edition, 41 minutes 32 seconds, to hear in the Mansion or download as an MP3.
Let Me Have the Hour
The morning after the ballroom, a returned fan, a perfect bow, and an open hand unsettle more than the court. A four-part story of recognition, fear, and the right to choose.
Across Lifetimes · Fiction · $7 USD · One-time purchase
Read a little of the opening
This is a house that runs. Attend the fact.
It keeps an hour for every human act: an hour to wake, an hour to be dressed, an hour to be envied, an hour to confess, an hour for chocolate, an hour for the priest. The house commands the greatest and the least.
The complete story in two 29-page PDFs: a candlelit screen edition and a print-friendly edition. Read your purchased copy in the Mansion with adjustable text and a night-reading setting, or download the PDFs.
A dropped fan, a stolen kiss, and a court with far too much time to talk.
Original poem by SunJewel · 8-page PDF & plain text · Free
How your keepsake reaches you
These are one-time purchases, plus any applicable tax shown at checkout. No subscription. Digital editions for personal use; no physical book is shipped. A private link sent by email lets you reopen your purchase without creating an account.