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    There’s a movement out of the corner of his eyes, before a sudden sharp pinch pulls him back to reality with a yelp. Glancing back, Silver watches his father pull his hand away from where he had been pinching his cheek, crouching with his elbows pressed against his knees. He looks thoroughly amused. “Why the long face, my dear?”

    Hugging himself, Silver shrinks back. “‘M scared…” he mumbles. “I don’t wanna go with the moon.”

    “Well you won’t!” Father tells him, reaching out to pat him affectionately on the head, ruffling his hair. “It’s merely a fable, after all. As long as you take care to stay out of danger whenever you sleep, you shall be fine.

    “I promise you that.”

    When Silver was young, Lilia told him a fable about the full moon. Do not fall asleep in her light, lest she sweeps you away in her embrace.

    For years, Silver has dutifully avoided doing just that — drawing the curtains every evening, taking care to block out the moonlight — the childhood tale lingering with him.

    Until one night, he messes up.

    (And slowly, surely, everything begins to go horribly wrong.)

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    “That weird redhead guy? All he does is stare angrily at our food,” Epel says, leaning over Trey’s crouched position to wipe a dash of icing sugar off the window. “He looks mad all the time.”
    “Maybe he’s on a diet,” Silver suggests.
    “Maybe he’s gluten free,” Ruggie adds.
    “Maybe he’s homophobic,” says Rook. When several pairs of eyes stare at him pointedly, he responds, “what? Are we not all children of the rainbow?”
    “You talk like a millennial self-help book,” Jamil says, rolling his eyes.
    “And anyway,” Ace adds, “it’s not like we’re all wearing name tags that say 'I Like Dick'.”
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    In the middle of the concrete jungle corporate district of the Night Raven Business Hub, Clover Bakery sticks out as a welcome interruption with its generous doling out of baked goods, advice, and warmth. After years of uneventful peace, it's about high time that the Bakery's in for a serving of romance and a heaping of chaos.
    Or: a story about learning how to let people in, the practically magical healing ability of good food, and how to make the perfect strawberry tart.

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