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Lanterns and Thorns
Paperback
Publisher: Ashen Vale
Published: Sep 1 2025
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In the hush between moonlight and dawn, there are roads hidden from the waking world, lantern-lit paths where shadows walk, dragons whisper, and ancient pacts demand their due. Lanterns and Thorns gathers brief but haunting glimpses into these in-between places-flash fictions that slip between dark fairytales and quiet hope, weaving stories of children who brave haunted woods, mages with defiant familiars, lost creatures that find warmth again, and guardians who give everything for those they protect.
Each story is a lantern flickering in the dark, illuminating small, fiercely human moments within the strange, the magical, and the monstrous. For readers who believe even in the coldest forest, there is warmth waiting, and that sometimes, the smallest act of kindness can break ancient curses.
Step into these stories and let them leave a thorn-or a light-inside you, reminding you that you are never truly alone in the dark.
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