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Keepers of Small Things: Volume One: Three Novellas: The Unchosen, The Boy Who Counted Stars, and The Grandmother Spider's Apprentice
Paperback
Series: Keepers of Small Thing, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 18 2026
Pages: 502
Weight: 1.27
Height: 1.12 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Somebody has to keep the small things.
Every generation the Oracle names a Chosen One, and the whole realm rallies behind them. This year it names Roan Aldyce, the fastest girl in the county. Wick Dodd, aged twelve, is assigned to carry her luggage.
Then he finds an older name under the paint on her trunk, and two words in a clerk's flat hand: RECOVERED EAST.
Sixty-three names. Fifty-nine of them recovered east. Nobody has ever added it up, because nobody has ever needed to - it has been written down, in the open, on a shelf, for eight hundred years.
Three complete novellas, in three worlds that never touch.
THE UNCHOSEN - A boy who carries other people's boxes works out what the prophecy actually costs, and who has been paying for it.
THE BOY WHO COUNTED STARS - On a generation ship a century from anywhere, one boy keeps an honest count. The count says the wrong thing.
THE GRANDMOTHER SPIDER'S APPRENTICE - A strip cut from a loom fifty years ago is eating the endings of everything near it. Somebody has to tie it off.
Nobody chose these three. Nobody is coming to check their work. Each story stands alone, and each argues the same quiet case: that the world is held up by people nobody thinks to name.
Middle grade fantasy and science fiction. For readers of nine and up, and the adults reading over their shoulder.
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