Moss Rent

Troll bridge-keeper Bram collects rent in small true things: a song, a nail, a name spoken willingly. The town has voted to blast the bridge, and the mayor is someone he once carried across in a flood.

ShadowTeen & up · PG-13Wet stone, patience, hurt pride, and kindness that does not begfull cast audio

Ending promise · contains a broad spoiler

Bittersweet

Series DNA

Bram has kept the only dry crossing for forty years by taking a toll that cannot be paid in money. When the town hires powder to bring the arch down, he has to decide whether the bridge's law still deserves the people who fear him.

Cast

Ned Hallow

witness · wants Finish the survey without choosing a side he will have to live beside

Bram

protagonist · wants Keep the crossing and be greeted by name

Mayor Ada Quinn

antagonist · wants Give the town a bridge that does not frighten its children

Moss Rent

2,470 published words · 80,000 planned

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