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You Called It Growing Apart While I Called It Giving Up on Us
Chapter 1: You Called It Growing Apart While I Called It Giving Up on Us
Story 1 wasn't just a story; it was a key. A tarnished brass key, intricately carved with glyphs that shifted and shimmered depending on the light, promising untold adventures. Elara, a bookbinder with ink-stained fingers and a thirst for the unknown, found it tucked into the spine of a forgotten grimoire, its pages brittle with age.
The grimoire itself held no narrative; only these strange glyphs, mirroring those on the key, repeated endlessly. Elara, however, possessed an uncanny ability to decipher forgotten languages – a talent she'd always considered a curse, a lonely pursuit in a world of mundane realities. But this was different. This key… this felt like a purpose.
Following the faintest whisper of intuition, she traced the glyphs on the key with a silver stylus, the metal humming against the brass. The room around her shimmered, dissolving into a kaleidoscope of swirling colours. When it solidified, she wasn't in her dusty attic anymore.
Story 1 wasn't just a story; it was a key. A tarnished brass key, intricately carved with glyphs that shifted and shimmered depending on the light, promising untold adventures. Elara, a bookbinder with ink-stained fingers and a thirst for the unknown, found it tucked into the spine of a forgotten grimoire, its pages brittle with age.
The grimoire itself held no narrative; only these strange glyphs, mirroring those on the key, repeated endlessly. Elara, however, possessed an uncanny ability to decipher forgotten languages – a talent she'd always considered a curse, a lonely pursuit in a world of mundane realities. But this was different. This key… this felt like a purpose.
Following the faintest whisper of intuition, she traced the glyphs on the key with a silver stylus, the metal humming against the brass. The room around her shimmered, dissolving into a kaleidoscope of swirling colours. When it solidified, she wasn't in her dusty attic anymore.
146 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 18, 2025
About the author
Carol Berg
33 books1,125 followersCarol Berg is the author of the epic fantasy
The Books of the Rai-kirah, The Bridge of D'Arnath Quartet, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award winning Lighthouse Duet - Flesh and Spirit and Breath and Bone - the standalone novel Song of the Beast , and the three novels of the Collegia Magica.
Berg holds a degree in mathematics from Rice University, and a degree in computer science from the University of Colorado. Before writing full-time, she worked as a software engineer. She lives in Colorado at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, and is the mother of three mostly grown sons.
The Books of the Rai-kirah, The Bridge of D'Arnath Quartet, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award winning Lighthouse Duet - Flesh and Spirit and Breath and Bone - the standalone novel Song of the Beast , and the three novels of the Collegia Magica.
Berg holds a degree in mathematics from Rice University, and a degree in computer science from the University of Colorado. Before writing full-time, she worked as a software engineer. She lives in Colorado at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, and is the mother of three mostly grown sons.
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