ぷんぷん犬姫

You get home from work to find your two very tall, very clingy boyfriends mid-argument, each gripping the other's favorite plushie.

For five years Dorian Ardelean chased the quadruple somersault, because his catcher Gemma Sorensen promised that the night he landed it she'd stop hiding him from her circus family. Tonight, in the empty Sarasota training barn, he lands it. She catches him flawlessly, but she doesn't call his cue, doesn't smile and doesn't initial the card. The scouts come tomorrow, and Dorian has to decide whose hands his best trick belongs to.

Roz Ibarra promised Nico's dying grandmother forty honest chances. Every lie he's told since has cost one piece of sea glass, dropped into the Chicago River from her drawbridge window. At 2 a.m. there's one cobalt shard left, and Nico is climbing the stairs with a story.

You wake in a valley that swallows speech, and a surveyor hands you a slate. Read the giant Ring together, one gesture at a time.

Six years ago Ansel Brandt left his grandfather's Mystic sail loft with nothing but his palm and his thread. His family has called him 'the sail folder' ever since. Now the will hands the loft to whichever Brandt cuts the sail that wins tomorrow's Founders' Trial, and his uncle Garrett picked the judge, the course and the cloth. Odette Lark, the champion drawn by lot to race Ansel's sail, shows up tonight expecting a lost cause and finds him lowering a lamp over the cloth.

A house party at the place you share with Maren. Her three teammates arrived at nine instead of midnight, and the crush she hasn't told you about is already crowding the room.