The Poet of the Ghetto: A young poet, growing up in a marginalized community, uses his unique brand of street language and slang to write critically acclaimed poetry.
The Translator's Curse: A linguist translating a long-forgotten Yoruba text finds that each word she translates has a literal and a spiritual meaning, with the spiritual meaning affecting her own life.
The Language of Birds: A young girl, gifted with the ability to understand the language of birds, discovers their chatter holds clues to a hidden political conspiracy.
The Author's Shadow: A story told from the point of view of a writer's shadow, which observes the writer's life and reveals the deeper, hidden meanings behind his works.
The Song of the Broken Record: A DJ in a small town starts receiving mysterious vinyl records, each playing a short, repetitive song that subtly changes the emotions of anyone who hears it.
The Sentence in the Wall: A graffitist discovers that the lines they spray-paint on walls appear in the minds of the city's inhabitants, shaping their thoughts and beliefs.
The Dictionary of the Dying: An author compiles a dictionary of a dying language, only to realize that as she documents it, she is also losing her memory of the words she has already written.
The Novel of Our Life: A community finds its history being written and rewritten in a mysterious, blank book that appears in the town square.
The Library of Dust: A librarian in a remote, dusty library discovers that the books are not made of paper but of dried words and stories, which turn to dust if not read regularly.
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