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What's the price of a dream? For two musicians, it might be their friendship. A raw look at selling out when the bills come due. #Winnipeg #Music #Friendship #Busking
A Penny for a Hollow Tune | Unfinished Tales
For two buskers at The Forks, the familiar chords of their shared songs begin to sour. An argument over a handful of change escalates into a raw, public confrontation, revealing the deep cracks in a friendship worn thin by ambition and resentment.
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February 6, 2026 at 2:05 PM
History isn't always dead. Sometimes it's just waiting. A student's research uncovers a terrifying truth lurking in Winnipeg's rivers. #Horror #Supernatural #Winnipeg #TheForks
Confluence is a Physical State | Unfinished Tales
A university student's archival research at The Forks takes a chilling turn when a waterlogged diary from a 19th-century flood seems to infect the present, blurring the lines between historical record and a creeping, personal dread that rises like the river itself.
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February 6, 2026 at 2:13 AM
How do you reconnect with a stranger who is also your son? A painful look at fatherhood, absence, and the things we can't fix in a day. #FamilyDrama #Fatherhood #Winnipeg
A Day Trip to a Foreign Country | Unfinished Tales
A father's attempt to reconnect with his estranged teenage son with a carefully planned day at The Forks falls apart amidst forced fun and unspoken resentments. The gap between them proves to be wider and more treacherous than the river flowing beside them.
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February 5, 2026 at 2:12 PM
He was just the delivery guy. Now he's the target. A simple drop-off becomes a run for his life in the heart of Winnipeg. #Thriller #Crime #Winnipeg #OnTheRun
An Unscheduled Pickup at the Portage Bridge | Unfinished Tales
A low-level courier's simple drop-off at The Forks devolves into a nightmare of paranoia when the meet goes wrong. Trapped in the open and carrying a package he was warned not to inspect, he learns the hard way that in his line of work, being the messenger means you are also the most disposable target.
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February 5, 2026 at 2:16 AM
In the unforgiving West, a quiet drifter changes everything for a farm boy cornered by outlaws. Their eyes meet, their fates collide. Read 'A Gaze Across the Salt Flats' now! #WesternBoysLove #NewChapter #GrittyRomance
A Gaze Across the Salt Flats | Unfinished Tales
In a forgotten corner of the desolate plains, a stolen glance ignited a spark between two unlikely souls, trapped in the unforgiving machinery of the West.
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February 4, 2026 at 2:08 PM
The light went out. In the heart of the storm, two boys have to fight a machine from another century to bring it back. But some things, once lit, can't be put out. #BoysLove #YA #Newfoundland #Lighthouse #ContemporaryFiction
The Salt Stings Both Ways | Unfinished Tales
During a brutal summer storm on the Newfoundland coast, two boys tasked with maintaining a remote lighthouse must rely on each other to keep the light burning, discovering a connection as fierce and fleeting as the gale outside.
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February 4, 2026 at 2:07 AM
What happens when you're forced to hide with the enemy? For two graffiti artists, one night in a train yard could change the lines they've drawn forever. #BoysLove #YA #UrbanFiction #Graffiti #Rivals
Rust and Signal Flares | Unfinished Tales
Forced to hide from security in a sprawling, derelict train yard, two teenage graffiti artists from rival crews discover they have more in common than the smell of aerosol paint on their clothes, igniting a dangerous and unspoken truce.
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February 3, 2026 at 2:05 PM
What do you do when the universe shows you how small you are? Two boys at a remote astronomy camp find out the biggest distances aren't between the stars. #BoysLove #YA #Astronomy #ComingOfAge #Canada
The Parallax of You | Unfinished Tales
At a remote astronomy camp in the Alberta badlands, a slip on a crumbling hoodoo forces two very different boys together under a sky streaked with meteors, where they discover the cosmic distances between stars are nothing compared to the ones between their lives.
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February 3, 2026 at 2:06 AM
The powder horns lie, but a new kind of battle begins. James and Pavel's story unfolds amidst smoke and summer heat. #ComingOfAge #WarOf1812 #HistoricalFiction #BoysLove
Where the Powder Horns Lie | Unfinished Tales
Amidst the roar of muskets and the haze of a summer re-enactment, James grapples with the weight of history, the sting of black powder, and a burgeoning, confusing connection with Pavel, a boy from the 'other side'.
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February 2, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Grief and rust. Lynn's world shatters when Silvan falls. Now, a crucial secret is hers, and the pursuit is relentless. Read A Breath Unsnapped! #DystopianFiction #NewChapter #SurvivalStory
A Breath Unsnapped | Unfinished Tales
Amidst the crumbling remnants of a forgotten facility, a desperate escape takes a fatal turn, leaving one survivor to face encroaching shadows and a profound, sudden loss.
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February 2, 2026 at 2:13 AM
In the cold, silent dark of space, some doors should never be opened. What horrors await inside the generation ship Ozymandias? #SciFi #Horror #Space
The Hull-Grown God | Unfinished Tales
A deep-space salvager and his AI companion breach the sealed cryo-bay of a derelict generation ship, only to discover that its slumbering passengers have become part of a horrifying new consciousness.
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February 1, 2026 at 2:11 PM
In a city built on secrets, some truths are paid for in blood. A dead informant, a damning ledger, and a PI in over his head. #Noir #Mystery #CrimeFiction
All Our Hollow Covenants | Unfinished Tales
A disgraced private investigator meets a terrified informant at a fog-shrouded ferry terminal. The exchange of a single piece of evidence sets off a chain of events from which there is no return.
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February 1, 2026 at 2:09 AM
In a drowned world, the sea takes everything. For Millie, a desperate race to save her brother ends in the heart of a storm. #PostApocalyptic #Dystopian #Survival
Sea-Stung Requiem | Unfinished Tales
In a drowned world of rust and ruin, a young woman pilots her skiff through a gathering storm, desperate to save her feverish brother. But the sea is cruel, and so are the other survivors who hunt them.
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January 31, 2026 at 2:08 PM
What's worse than finding no gold in the Yukon? Finding something else entirely. A story of greed, madness, and cosmic horror. #WeirdWest #Horror #Yukon
The Stone That Sings Of Static | Unfinished Tales
In the remote Yukon wilderness, two prospecting partners' fragile relationship shatters when they find a strange, otherworldly meteorite. Their conflict, and the arrival of a rival claim-jumper, leads to a deadly confrontation with the unknown.
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January 31, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Some doors are meant to stay closed. An occult cleaner faces a summoning gone horribly wrong in the basement of a Calgary condo tower. #UrbanFantasy #Horror #Supernatural
An Accounting of Sub-Basement Realities | Unfinished Tales
A specialist in occult phenomena is called to a mundane condo building to clean up a summoning gone wrong. But the entity that has been brought through is far more dangerous than his intel suggested.
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January 30, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Just dropped into the middle of Lonnie's world. Bills, rain, and then... a whisper of something impossible. 'The Unburdening of Lead' will leave you questioning everything. #UrbanFantasy #AngelStory #NewChapter
The Unburdening of Lead | Unfinished Tales
Lonnie grapples with mounting bills and a growing sense of despair when an unexpected visitor, Sandra, appears in his cluttered flat, bringing with her a disconcerting calm and a challenge to his cynicism.
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January 30, 2026 at 2:13 AM
The brutal Winnipeg winter bites deep. Heartbreak on Portage Ave. Can a broken past ever truly be left behind? Dive into a raw, gritty coming-of-age chapter. #ComingOfAge #WinnipegWinter #Heartbreak
Cobblestone Fractures | Unfinished Tales
Amidst the brutal Winnipeg winter, a raw conversation unravels on Portage Avenue, leaving a young heart exposed and confronting the bitter truths of first love and inevitable goodbyes.
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January 29, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Caught in a storm, two strangers share hushed confessions under a pavilion's tin roof. What secrets bind them? Read 'A Confluence of Unspoken Waters'. #NewFiction #Mystery #RainyDayReads
Unspoken Waters | Unfinished Tales
Under the sudden deluge, two strangers find refuge in a forgotten park pavilion. He carries a past etched in his weary eyes, while she clutches a secret that burns like fresh ink. A tentative silence gives way to hushed confessions.
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January 29, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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Seashell mug. Stoneware. Hand-built. One of a kind. In my etsy shop. Surly.etsy.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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Hope
January 28, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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Into the wood #trees #woodland #treeclub 🌳
January 28, 2026 at 6:51 AM
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Tall square bottom mug with lavender. Stoneware. Hand-built. Work in progress.
January 28, 2026 at 9:56 PM
A Matter of Optics: 'The optics, as it were, have grown untenable.' A chilling line revealing a masterful act of rhetorical violence. Unpack the core of this chapter's psychological drama with us. #CorporateThriller #EmotionalDamage
An analysis of A Matter of Optics | Boys Love (BL) Stories. Unbound.
A psychological and thematic analysis of "A Matter of Optics".
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January 28, 2026 at 2:13 PM
What secrets lie beneath the city? Prof. Arstin gets schooled in forgotten lore by a cryptic stranger in 'When the Air Turned Thick'. History redefined! #UrbanFantasy #HiddenTruths #CitySecrets
When the Air Turned Thick | Unfinished Tales
A sudden downpour traps a cynical academic and a sharp-witted urban legend expert in a grand, overgrown botanical pavilion. Their initial friction sparks a conversation that hints at an ancient secret, a truth buried beneath the city's veneer.
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January 28, 2026 at 2:08 PM