A Clockwork's Dreaming
And Other Tales
The first collection of Claude Moreau’s Garden Tales is ready for purchase!
In Claude Moreau's Garden, magic blooms between dewdrops and dreams, where scholarly mice debate proper tea service in a library housed within an ancient teapot, and frost spirits dance with morning glories to ring in each dawn. Here, memories can be bottled like preserves, stories sometimes edit themselves when no one is looking, and a particularly opinionated patch of mushrooms insists on providing philosophical commentary about cheese. It's a place where the most ordinary moments contain extraordinary wonders, and where even the spaces between heartbeats hold their own kind of magic.
In this newly discovered collection of tales, hastily penned to his friend Henri-Jules Favreau and only recently unearthed in a Marseilles safe deposit box, Moreau captures the remarkable events in his grandmother's enchanted garden. From a clockwork assistant discovering how to dream, to young mice learning to weave spider-silk into wings, to the grand autumn performance that drew an audience of dragons and dryads, these stories shine with immediacy and wonder. Together, they offer a glimpse into a world where mechanical songbirds learn to compose their own melodies, where librarians help books find their proper dreams, and where the truest magic lies not in grand gestures but in the gentle art of paying attention to small wonders.
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NOTE: Exhaustively edited by Cornelius Thistledown of #12 Foxglove Row, the Garden. Any errors are obviously the work of the translator, whom he refers to as "most irregular in his scholarly methodology" and "utterly lacking in proper documentation protocols." While the translator's enthusiasm for Garden affairs is noted, his tendency to spill tea on crucial passages and apparent inability to properly cross-reference astronomical phenomena with weather patterns is, frankly, most concerning. Several attempts were made to establish a more rigorous system of notation, but alas, humans seem remarkably resistant to organizing their thoughts according to proper academic principles. Most irregular indeed.
The above notation was found paperclipped to page xvii, accompanied by three carefully pressed forget-me-nots and what appears to be a very tiny bookmark.