The Memory of the Miller Boy

Harrison Bryans is a successful composer in the city of Terrata. Having been plagued by nightmares for the past several years, he makes a Christmas wish to finally have a dream. During his Winter Wonderland concert, Tal, the shadow nymph who's haunted those nightmares, asks for a symphony in exchange for Harrison's dream.

Harrison enters a snowy dreamscape where he faces his own past, untangling his nightmares, but must also piece together Tal's own life before times runs out and traps them both. Amid their dark death of life and death, reuniting and farewells, the question poses: were his nightmares actually reality?

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The Memory of the Miller Boy is a short story of 7.6K words set in the same world as Harrison's Heed, inspired by The Nutcracker meets The Phantom of the Opera.