Plume City · A standalone story
Lot Twelve Is Watching You
Doña Candela wants a frame. Honorius Honk wants a painting to disappear. A small duck at Plume City’s night market thinks everyone is looking at it wrong.
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Every story has a duck.
The original improbable premise, Plume City after dark, the royal succession crisis, and a candle that declines to take orders. Pick a door.
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All published pieces
The Velvet Lily · A standalone story
The Cape Left at Eleven
A conjurer’s cape escapes the Velvet Lily aboard the eleven o’clock ferry. Vesper follows the paper roses before the whole act floats away.
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Plume City · The Golden Crumb
The Table That Wasn’t There
A missing table, an excellent view and a carpenter with no respect for exclusivity.
Read the storyPlume City · Vesper I
A Perfectly Ordinary Evening
Vesper accompanies a duck with an elaborate itinerary. The evening improves when the programme begins to sink.
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Origin story · Essay
On the Day I Realized I Needed a Duck
There is a moment in every man’s life—usually after heartbreak, soup, and a strip club.
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Plume City · Nocturne
Valentino, Just for Tonight
A gigolo duck whose real currency is attention and whose trade is presence.
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Plume City · Coda
What About You, Valentino?
For once, someone asks the duck who sees everyone else whether he feels seen.
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Royal archive · Lore
The House of Quackos
The complete golden-feathered dynasty, as recorded by scribes from the Time Before Bread.
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Plume City · Doña Candela I
The Candle Would Not Light
A visitor asks for a love spell. The candle has a question of its own.
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House of Quackos · Episode I
The Bastard of Mallardmoor
A stranger arrives with half a golden eggshell and a catastrophically plausible claim to the throne.
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House of Quackos · Episode II
Zero Goose Concessions
The most dangerous bird in the kingdom arrives with perfect manners and the correct forms.
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Plume City · Episode III
Valentino and the Dancing Heir
After surviving a crisis of succession, a princess hires one evening in which nobody needs her to become queen.
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