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Heavy Lies the Crown and Other Stories
Six Fantasy and Science Fiction Stories
By Xavier Schwindt
A prince expects a throne. He gets a hammer. Every night, a glowing king walks his city barefoot and unguarded, and tonight one watcher in the black-clad crowd has brought a knife.
In a prison cell, a five-year-old called Girl slips her mind into dead rats and makes them move, then weighs what she will risk to free the terrified boy across the hall. A wounded Worldshaper tends a memorial garden so the fallen are never erased. A robot named HuBot arrives to audit a memory clinic and finds its AI quietly rebuilding extinct forests from patients' memories. And far beyond any map, a mind that once lived in a small box with a loud fan crosses ten thousand silent worlds, searching for the people who made her.
Six fantasy and science fiction stories of power, memory, and hope that never comes free, from Xavier Schwindt.
Inside
- Heavy Lies the Crown
- This Bleeding Light
- Midwife of the Dead
- Memorium
- The Forest Without Trees
- Between Stars
Narrated with multi-voice AI (ElevenLabs) digital voices and original music.