Wordleaves

On a snowy Christmas Eve, a small-town man is summoned to a remote lodge and discovers something ancient and malevolent has been unleashed.

A young man chosen for an annual sacrifice confronts the god-like AI that governs his city - only to find himself drawn into a conversation that challenges everything he believes about emotion, logic, and the meaning of life.

A Chosen One of the galactic empire composes a philosophical letter to comfort a grief-stricken survivor after their beloved home planet is annihilated without warning.

A plain-spoken Montana man, the sole composed survivor of a catastrophic plane crash, recounts his harrowing night to investigators - a night that tested the limits of his legendary unflappability, and an ocean haunted by; something.

A father determined to toughen up his young son pressures the reluctant boy into provoking a sleeping turkey at a petting zoo, setting off a confrontation that forces the dad to confront his own assumptions about courage, childhood, and being a good fathe…

A radio operator at a lonely listening post records voice memos to his friend Angie the day he intercepts an alien signal.

A philosophically-minded magic mouse on a lunar city follows a haunting melody he alone can hear, venturing beyond the dome into the airless moonscape, only to find more than the music at his journey's end.

On Christmas Eve, a young girl named Jenny chases her dying hearth fire through a secret tunnel behind the fireplace, discovering a hidden world where all the fires of every household possess names, voices, and stories of their own.

Four college friends sneak onto an Iowa State dairy farm on Halloween to kill a cow as a thrill-seeking primalism stunt, but their arrogance soon meets a reckoning they can't hack their way out of.

A princess ant leads a splinter colony away from their juice-addicted home to build something better, only to watch her own ideals crumble as the same addictive Ant Juice she once banned slowly consumes her colony.

A veteran father returns to his aged mother in a remote woodland homestead with warnings of approaching war.

A wretched flesh-eating ghoul haunted by multiple quarrelsome inner voices is driven across a frozen, endless cemetery by a pack of savage, starving dogs - only to find that the most dangerous thing in the lichyard may not be what the dogs have cornered h…

In a vast underground world of perpetual darkness, a master predator navigates by sound alone - until an organized pack of strange two-legged hunters turns the tables, forcing a brutal battle of wits, instinct, and survival in the echoing stone dark.

In 1911 Germany, an English diplomat's wife and her adventurous teenage daughter are stranded by a broken train in a remote Black Forest village, where a disquieting local woman takes an unsettling interest in the young girl.

A playful poem narrator, blessed with an incurable love for numbers and statistics, follows their cheerful obsession down a rabbit hole of fun facts and favourite integers - until the numbers lead somewhere impossible to laugh off.

A lone cargo hauler drifting through deep space discovers his ship's music falling dangerously silent, leaving him scrambling against time, a faulty AI, and jar of noise.

A battle-scarred knight's hard-won victory over demons brings unexpected consequences for his peaceful kingdom, forcing him to confront grief, guilt, and an uncertain future.

A grieving widow spends three sleepless nights guarding her husband's body in a burial mound, sculpting clay surrogates to hold back vampiric mist - until her statues run out, the earth cracks open, and only her own blood can save his soul.

A mythic sorcerer crash-lands on a desert world where a tyrant controls a stranded community's water supply.

A routine evening turns catastrophic when shifted cargo pitches the shell nose-first into the glass sky.

A frozen Leeges frigate blocks the striation ahead.

The Man wakes after the storm to find himself in the Engi, an uncharted wilderness of inverted glaciers, strange plants, and unfamiliar birds.

The worst storm The Man has ever known tears a track from his shell and threatens to snap the rest.

Exhausted and underfed, The Man discovers the striation ahead forks: one branch continues west, the other curves north toward the uncharted seacover.

A midnight hunt on the shell's roof is cut short when The Man spots smoke through the window.

The Man logs the day's distance and charts his frontier map while a wartime radio broadcast fills his study.

Between spinning sessions, The Man works through a punishing checklist of survival tasks: changing clothes, stoking the furnace, braking the shell, and climbing its icy exterior to clear snow and furl the sail before the stars wake.

With his body broken, his fuel nearly gone, and the shell stripped to its bones, The Man pulls at his spinner one last time.

Deaf and half-blind after the furnace blast, The Man discovers he is not alone in his shell.

The Man spins through a pitch-black storm with renewed strength as the sky disappears beneath dark ice.

Emerging from the glaciers starved and wounded, The Man hunts for food, fights through sickness to replace a broken window, and slowly recovers.

Trapped for a season in glacial ice, The Man retreats to the furnace as his world shrinks to a single flame.

Frozen solid in the glaciers with no wind and dwindling supplies, The Man exhausts every option to free his shell.

Deep in the glaciers, icicles explode without warning in chain reactions The Man calls Shiverings.

A lone man rows a flywheel aboard a small shell vessel crawling beneath a frozen glass sky.

Back at his cubicle desk, a changed Mr.

Jodee Coats stands trial for breaking King's Law in an elaborate skating pageant on a frozen jelly pond, while Mr.

Mr.

A noose-lift ride up a giant stone face delivers the travelers into a gossip-starved mountain town, where a coach driven by Death, a run-in with the Old Wind, and a merchant's tale of Jodee's visit offer new clues, and stranger lodging.

Chased by a furious Old Wind into an abandoned iron tavern, Mr.

Drawn to a mansion's smoking chimneys and lit windows, Mr.

Tom and Ms.

A wandering harvester camp welcomes the weary travelers with a practical joke, an enormous feast, and a life-saving gift, though Honeydew's growing wish to linger in Dreamland begins to pull against Mr.

Searching for food and direction, Mr.

A glittering, animal-masked barn dance offers a rare crowd to question, until the finders Blackjaw and Slake corner Mr.

Battling brambles and bad tempers, Mr.

As the party prepares to leave Dreamland forever, unfinished business, a stubborn Wind, a family of ghosts, an ultimatum for the Queen, delays their departure, until a boulder-comet launches them toward Starharbor under an impossible, first-ever sunrise.