Living Codex • Stories • Short
“Everything is Story.
Story is Everything.”
Motto of those illustrious leaf-based book purveyors known as
‘leaf through the leaves: Book Binders, Publishers, and Releasers’
friendship’s first flight
The mythic tale, the strange story, the true legend of how that first famous trio formed: Space Grandma, the sentient seed pod teahouse and spaceship, and the curious beings that power them.
Written down by Rover Thee after Space Grandma’s own telling.
‘Yeah, that would be Lovely’
A particularly treasured memory of Space Grandma’s from one of zir first visits to the planet M’li, and includes zir first encounter with a truly wild tisane ingredient that has since become a favorite.
Written down by Rover Three after Space Grandma’s own telling.
Translation Tea Transformations
In which the author encounters one of the Elder Trees of that ancient tree civilization growing on Rhizophora, a planet beyond the Pleiades, and tastes Translation Tea for the first full time.
Written down by Rover Three, after being experienced by the same.
Dreams of Green
Evocative erockative tale of Space Grandma’s first night on the mineral-packed planet called Olm.
Composed by Rover Three after Space Grandma’s own initial telling.
Wyrmroot
A personal tale of small tragedy and revelation tinged with discovery of the famous tisane ingredient.
Spoken by Vrae ElnoAdi, recorded by Rover Three, published here for the first time.
M’li Re-Emergence Myth
Mythic-historical telling of how the humes of the planet M’li recovered after terrible disaster.
Collected and recorded by M’li historian and folklorist Bluenight Light La Far.
“this is only the report of my own map”
These pieces sent back from a rite of passage journey tell a wild tale of transformation.
Brought back by a traveler who encountered the diary keeper while on the river.
