The Princess Who Forgot How to Sleep

B2 Spanish · 6 min read · Free

Every citizen of Valdelirio sleeps from eight at night to eight in the morning, by decree of a machine with a polished bronze face. So who is the girl in a hundred-year-old nightgown walking the glass city at three in the morning, and why does the strongest sedative in the kingdom do absolutely nothing to her?

B2 Spanish · 6 min read

Every lamp in Valdelirio burns something its citizens don't remember losing. Tonight, in a laundry that appears on no map, the princess finds out exactly what — and what it will cost to keep the lights on.

B2 Spanish · 7 min read

A city that burned its dreams for electricity is about to get the bill. Its only insomniac walks into the machine's tower at dawn carrying nothing but a ledger of golden ink and an old fairy's final lesson.