In “Scents Drifting on a Breeze,” Meyari McFarland introduces a museum worker with a crush, a mysterious funerary urn, and a ghost who’s been waiting for someone to listen. While sorting through artifacts in a small museum, a queer woman begins to suspect one of the displays—a forgotten funerary urn—might be haunted. As she deciphers…
A forgotten funerary urn, a quiet crush, and a ghost who has waited too long for someone to listen—the museum’s ordinary displays an extraordinary story. In “Scents Drifting on a Breeze,” Meyari McFarland weaves a soft, romantic ghost story about memory, recognition, and the overlooked spaces where connection quietly blooms. As a museum worker puzzles…
Aravel stood at the bow of the Harmonious Song, studying the twin cities of Yuzuki and Masumi in Chinwendu. Halfway around the world from home, Aravel didn’t expect to find an old enemy stirring up the same stupid strife from home. But Delbhana Cahan had married into the Ito and turned them against Aravel’s cousins…
