If you don’t know what story cubes are, see the introduction to the story cubes series.

To see the original roll of the story cubes, see yesterday’s post.

Story Cubes on top of Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang (translated by Karen Kingsbury)
Story Cubes on top of Love in a Fallen City by Eileen Chang (translated by Karen Kingsbury)

This book unlocks the secrets of time travel. You can go all the way from the days of knights in castles and ladies in lakes or stay in the modern world of ennui and malaise or leap ahead to tales of aliens and future tech. Once you start reading it, you won’t want to stop even if the whole world catches on fire. Which book is it? This book…

This one is designed to be read clockwise from the top left all the way around. I did that so the end would wrap around to the beginning and because I wanted to cover as little of the art on the cover as I could.

This is a cleaner version of something I did a couple of months ago with “The Circle of Art” story. When I write a novel, I try to make sure almost everything connects to something else, so if you see an idea in the first half of the book, it will probably come up somewhere in the second half in a way that’s either changed by the context or by what has happened in between. That gives the reader twice the value for their money and reading time. Unlike a novel, however, these flash fictions are so small you can actually see the idea turn back on and into itself.

By the way, “this book” does not refer to this week’s book. So this book is not this book.

The comments section is the perfect place for what you came up with. I’m sure you did better than I did this week!



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