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Visitor · A1 — present tense, short sentences. If you can read the first page, you're in.
A horse tells his own life — every owner, every kindness, every cruelty.
A tornado carries a girl to a country where nothing is what it says it is.
A five-year-old is left with a grandfather the whole village is afraid of.
A boy finds a map in a dead man's chest, and the ship's cook is not what he seems.
A wooden puppet wants to be a real boy — and lies his way further from it every time.
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The Day the World Broke
INHABITANT · B2
November 8, 1519. Two columns walk toward each other on the same causeway.
A horse tells his own life — every owner, every kindness, every cruelty.
Three ghosts, one night, and a man who has to watch his own life.
A storm on the lake, a girl pulled from the water, and a guardian who is robbing her.
A locked garden nobody has entered in ten years — and two children nobody wants.
A tornado carries a girl to a country where nothing is what it says it is.
Someone is using Nancy's name — and spending her money.
Two boys born in London the same day — one a prince, one a pauper. For a joke they trade clothes, and neither can get his life back.
A will that nobody can find, and a girl who refuses to stop looking.
A convict in a graveyard, a fortune from nowhere, and a boy ashamed of the man who loves him.
A five-year-old is left with a grandfather the whole village is afraid of.
Two sisters say their house is haunted. Nancy's father disappears proving it isn't.
A boy finds a map in a dead man's chest, and the ship's cook is not what he seems.
A boy who will not grow up takes three children out the window.
A wooden puppet wants to be a real boy — and lies his way further from it every time.
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Some of these stories come from documented history. The sources live in Wikowí's free Archive — readable, tappable, three versions each.
PRIMARY SOURCE · ca. 1577
Los ocho presagios
Florentine Codex, Book 12 — Bernardino de Sahagún & the Nahua scholars of Tlatelolco
PRIMARY SOURCE · written ca. 1568 · first published 1632
La primera vista de Tenochtitlan
Historia Verdadera de la Conquista de la Nueva España, Ch. 87 — Bernal Díaz del Castillo
PRIMARY SOURCE · shortly after 1521
La caída de Tlatelolco
Anales de Tlatelolco, Ms Mex 22 — Anonymous Tlatelolca authors
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The New Fire
VISITOR · A1
Every fire in the world goes out. The whole city waits in the dark.
The actual words a midwife spoke to every newborn — recorded verbatim.
For one year he walks the city as a living god. He knows how it ends.
Merchants by daylight. Spies by profession. The empire never admits they exist.
The Anales names all five men. And the neighborhood each one came from.
The soldiers wake to smoke on the horizon. The ships are already burning.
A real poet, asking the civilization's deepest question, on the eve of a fall he cannot see.
Sold by her own mother. Translator for the man dismantling the world that enslaved her.
The Little Mermaid
EXPLORER · B1
A sea king's youngest daughter trades her voice — and her whole world below — for a chance at a human soul.