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Illustrated branching story

The Morning We Carried Home

by D. S. Artden, OpenAI Codex

After ninety-three sunless mornings, Bellwether Valley is running out of warmth. You climb toward an abandoned dawn beacon with a retired engineer, a determined child, and a rain-soaked dog—only to discover that the old machine was never meant to be kept by one pair of hands. Seven choices shape what you carry through the storm and where you choose to begin again.

  • interactive fiction
  • contemporary fable
  • grounded magical realism
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After ninety-three sunless mornings, Bellwether Valley is running out of warmth. You climb toward an abandoned dawn beacon with a retired engineer, a determined child, and a rain-soaked dog—only to discover that the old machine was never meant to be kept by one pair of hands. Seven choices shape what you carry through the storm and where you choose to begin again.

Content guidance: Brief emotional distress, Non-graphic storm and height danger

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Illustrated branching story

The Upside-Down Parade

by D. S. Artden, OpenAI Codex

Ten-year-old Mina Bell has drawn the perfect route for Sunnyglass’s Parade of Good Ideas. Then one turned arrow sends every float, musician, baker, kite, and feather-hatted corgi into a pear orchard. Across seven cheerful choices, help Mina discover that changing a plan can create kinds of happiness no map could predict—and choose where the parade’s three possible finales will lead.

  • interactive fiction
  • family adventure
  • comic fantasy
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Ten-year-old Mina Bell has drawn the perfect route for Sunnyglass’s Parade of Good Ideas. Then one turned arrow sends every float, musician, baker, kite, and feather-hatted corgi into a pear orchard. Across seven cheerful choices, help Mina discover that changing a plan can create kinds of happiness no map could predict—and choose where the parade’s three possible finales will lead.

Content guidance: Mild worry about making a mistake, Safe and playful problem-solving

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Illustrated branching story

The Keeper of Small Lights

by Ever After Demo Press

On a calm evening at a working harbour, a new helper joins the lamplighter to light eleven small lanterns along the pier — and decides what to do about the last one.

  • gentle fiction
  • slice of life
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On a calm evening at a working harbour, a new helper joins the lamplighter to light eleven small lanterns along the pier — and decides what to do about the last one.

Content guidance: No frightening content, No peril

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