A Clockwork's Dreaming
What happens when an author invents a French artist, his professor friend, and an enchanted garden full of scholarly mice? A CLOCKWORK'S DREAMING AND OTHER TALES - original stories masquerading as discovered manuscripts, complete with pressed fairy wings and dragon scales.
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.
A CLOCKWORK’S DREAMING AND OTHER TALES
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.
What readers are saying:
Very lyrical nice stories about mice society in a garden that are written whimsically and beautiful. It is not cutesy and it strength lies in the description of light and wonder and the value of stories. — D. Nelson, Amazon
Whimsical and enchanting, these stories just make my brain feel good. They are perfect for just curling up with something hot to drink and reading about tiny events that feel grand and important. Highly recommended. — T. Doolan, Amazon
Highly recommend to anyone who would like to live in a world where memories can be bottled like preserves, where the music of creeks and streams can be perfectly recorded, and where mice have wonderfully curated libraries in old teapots. The poet William Blake would be enthralled with these tales, I think. — J. Olive, Amazon
The stories are sometimes bittersweet, but always touch on the truth that the stories shared throughout a community are what binds us together. I laughed and wondered at the unique aspects of the world around these tiny mice and was charmed by their little lives. Trust me, just get the book and you won't regret it. — Kay L., Amazon
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Stay tuned for updates about future collections, glimpses of newly discovered correspondence, and the occasional note from various Garden residents. Though if you notice your bookshelves being subtly reorganized after reading these tales . . . well, that's just the Library mice ensuring proper literary companionship for your new acquisitions.
P.S. - The mushrooms behind my herb patch insist I mention their role in verifying certain botanical details. They also wish me to state that any philosophical observations attributed to their ancestors are to be considered "primary source material of significant academic value" (though they remain rather sensitive about being described as "opinionated").