Dusty Lighthouse

FantasyA2 Short Stories

25 stories

Siempre Miércoles
He has lived this Wednesday two hundred times. She has lived it three thousand. There is a way out. But it costs everything you remember. Learn Spanish A2.

Siempre Miércoles

Always Wednesday

Mi Hermano de Agua
Her brother drowned a year ago. Now a boy made of water claims to be him. The river wants a family. She must choose what to believe. Learn Spanish A2.

Mi Hermano de Agua

My Brother of Water

Mi Padre Tiene Mil Caras
Mother sees a handsome man. Brother sees a monster. She sees nothing. Her father has no face. And now she is becoming like him. Learn Spanish A2.

Mi Padre Tiene Mil Caras

My Father Has a Thousand Faces

Mi Madre es la Luna
Every full moon, his mother disappears. He follows her to a lake. She walks into the sky. She is the moon. And he is her son. Learn Spanish A2.

Mi Madre es la Luna

My Mother is the Moon

Noche sin Fin
The sun stopped rising three days ago. People are changing. Their teeth are growing. Her mother knocks at the door. She has hungry eyes. Learn Spanish A2.

Noche sin Fin

Night Without End

El Libro de los Muertos
The book writes names at night. Those names die the next day. Tonight it writes her name. The book needs a new keeper. Learn Spanish A2.

El Libro de los Muertos

The Book of the Dead

El Niño que Vino del Mar
A boy floats in the water. Not breathing. But alive. He came to replace the fisherman's dead son. The sea always takes. Now it gives. Learn Spanish A2.

El Niño que Vino del Mar

The Boy from the Sea

La Maldición de las Mentiras
His lies become real. His father became a monster. His cat grew into a beast. To save his mother, he must lie again. Someone else will die. Learn Spanish A2.

La Maldición de las Mentiras

The Curse of Lies

La Moneda del Diablo
The coin always returns. Buy anything. The coin comes back. But everyone who touches it dies. He cannot give it away. He cannot use it. Learn Spanish A2.

La Moneda del Diablo

The Devil's Coin

La Invitada de la Cena
The empty chair has always been there. Tonight, someone sits in it. A sister who drowned twenty years ago. The family forgot. The chair remembered. Learn Spanish A2.

La Invitada de la Cena

The Dinner Visitor

La Puerta Prohibida
Every Wednesday, a door appears with her dead mother behind it. Her mother wants in. But something ancient wears her mother's face. Learn Spanish A2.

La Puerta Prohibida

The Forbidden Door

La Hermana Olvidada
A girl lives in their family photos. They made a deal to save her. She would live in pictures. They would forget. Now she wants out. Learn Spanish A2.

La Hermana Olvidada

The Forgotten Sister

La Yo Del Futuro
An old woman with her face arrives. She came to stop the wedding. The husband has secrets. In the basement of the lake house. She never returns. Learn Spanish A2.

La Yo Del Futuro

The Future Self

El Jardín de los Perdidos
Lost people grow as flowers in a secret garden. Each flower has a face. Her missing son is the most beautiful rose. She brings him home. He brings the garden. Learn Spanish A2.

El Jardín de los Perdidos

The Garden of the Lost

El Abuelo del Bosque
Grandfather never ages. He lives in the forest. Thirty-two people have disappeared there. Thirty-two trees with names. She becomes number thirty-three. Learn Spanish A2.

El Abuelo del Bosque

The Grandfather of the Forest

La Abuela que Llora
Grandmother sees the future in her tears. She never cries. Today she asks about his future. She cannot stop crying. Something terrible comes. Learn Spanish A2.

La Abuela que Llora

The Grandmother Who Cries

El Hombre sin Sombra
He sold his shadow to save his daughter. Now his shadow walks alone. It commits crimes. It wants his life. The shadow always returns. Learn Spanish A2.

El Hombre sin Sombra

The Man Without a Shadow

El Tren de Medianoche
The midnight train never stops. Tonight it stops for him. Inside: his dead wife, parents, brother. They are going home. He gets on. Forever. Learn Spanish A2.

El Tren de Medianoche

The Midnight Train

La Mujer del Espejo
In the mirror lives another her. Where her husband is still alive. They trade places for one day. One perfect day. Then she must return. Learn Spanish A2.

La Mujer del Espejo

The Mirror Woman

La Tienda que No Existe
A shop appears offering ten more years of life. The price: years from someone else. The old man refuses. He walks into the rain. Free. Learn Spanish A2.

La Tienda que No Existe

The Shop That Isn't There

La Deuda del Sol
Their world has no sun. Her family can bring it back. One day of light costs one life. She gives her life. Her daughter sees the sun. Learn Spanish A2.

La Deuda del Sol

The Sun Debt

Las Lágrimas Que Saben
Grandmother's tears show the future. Her tears touch his skin. Now he has the power. He will see every death. Every disaster. Forever. Learn Spanish A2.

Las Lágrimas Que Saben

The Tears That Know

La Voz en la Pared
Something in the wall knows his name. It says it was a boy once. The house called him inside. Now the voice is in his head. Always. Learn Spanish A2.

La Voz en la Pared

The Voice in the Wall

La Niña del Agua
When it rains, his dead daughter returns. She cannot stay when the sun comes. So it rains more. And more. Until the water takes him too. Learn Spanish A2.

La Niña del Agua

The Water Girl

La Mujer del Futuro
A woman with her face appears. Gray hair. Sad eyes. She is herself, twenty years older. She came to warn her. Leave the husband. Now. Learn Spanish A2.

La Mujer del Futuro

The Woman from the Future