In a world where children are exploited, monsters are saviors, and dark magic is constantly at play, a little girl will go to any lengths to be reunited with her lost ones. After the disappearance of her parents, a heartbroken child is sold to the Doll-Maker who promises to retrieve them. In return, she is to travel from cemetery to cemetery, unearthing graves and collecting skulls. While doing so, she must avoid the Violinist and his crows, who are determined to steal the skulls she has painstakingly gathered. As she travels across the province, with her life in constant peril from vengeful policeman to furious villagers to strange creatures, the little girl must use her wits to succeed in her macabre mission.

"What things do you see that are so hard to believe?" Mae isn't normal. And neither are the things she sees. Her family thinks she's crazy, and so do all of her doctors. So when a new doctor is called to try and fix her one last time, it just so happens that she starts to crack. Trigger Warning: Mention of life-threatening events and abuse towards the mentally ill. (Participant for the Historical Gothic Romance Contest)

There is no coming to conciousness without pain, something he had to experience the wrong way. They called him cursed, thrown him out of his home and taken the only thing he cared about. He had waited for years, and now his wait was at its end. It didn't matter if he had to fight monsters or make a pact with chaos. He was going to reclaim what he lost, even if he had to go to hell to do so.

This is a collection of memories between a collection of the same characters in different scenarios kept along a timeline. English isn't entirely my first language because of the family I grew up with. Characters and plot are self made and owned by myself so if anyone claims it that's not true. There are some sensitive topics that are vaguely drifted along some memories but it's also sprinkled with LGBTQ+.