A Short, Strange Story for Every Month of the Year

A Short, Strange Story for Every Month of the Year is a collection of twelve long-form narratives—one for each month—about ordinary systems that quietly drifted out of alignment.

Each story begins with something plausible: a town, a building, a law, a record, a room. Nothing supernatural. Nothing sensational. Just real or nearly real situations that existed for practical reasons—and then continued, unchanged, long after those reasons disappeared.

A town that kept time differently.
A building designed to never be fully occupied.
A census category that outlived the people it described.
A place built only for waiting, still open years after no one needed to wait.

These are not horror stories.
There are no twists, no villains, no explanations neatly tied up at the end.

Instead, the book reads like someone calmly telling you about something strange they once encountered—something documented, reasonable, and never fully resolved.

Each month is written as a complete, immersive piece, meant to be read slowly, paused, and returned to later. The stories favor observation over drama, atmosphere over answers, and lingering effect over closure.

This book is for readers who enjoy quiet mysteries, forgotten details, bureaucratic oddities, and the unsettling feeling that comes from realizing how many things continue simply because no one stops them.

Nothing here will rush you.

But some of it may stay with you longer than expected.