From a single spark, a story takes hold.
This collection features fifteen award-winning authors’ stories, shaped around the quiet longing, courage, defiance, or hope that begins small but eventually takes hold of a heart.
Each selection explores what happens when that inner whisper grows and transforms the lives it touches.
Together they form a tapestry of tales, proving that even the smallest calling can give rise to something meaningful and enduring.
Kailey Veenstra’s “The Witness” follows a friendship that survived decades, distance, and every definition that tried to contain it — a small spark of connection that never stopped burning.
Releasing November 3rd, 2026.Delivery or Pick Up available.All preordered editions come signed by Kailey.All sales final. No refunds.Publisher: Ember + Vine PressType: softcoverlanguage: english
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The Witness follows a friendship that survived decades, distance, and every definition that tried to contain it — a small spark of connection that never stopped burning.
Featured in the Ember and Vine Anthology, The Witness is one of fifteen award-winning short stories celebrating the quiet hope, longing and courage takes hold of a heart and gives rise to something meaningful and enduring.
A writers living library of the inner life.Labyrinth of the Heart
There was a time when writing felt like conversation — unhurried, intimate, real. Before the algorithm. Before the broadcast. Before everything became content.
This is a return to that.
Labyrinth of the Heart is where I write from the inside out. Not polished essays. Not strategy. The unfinished thoughts that are too alive and too personal for anywhere else — the musings, the questions, the slow unfolding of a book and an oracle deck and everything it's asking of me in the making.
The intimacy is the offering.
If you've ever wanted to be in the room with someone's actual process — not the highlight reel, not the curated wisdom, but the real thinking-in-progress — this is that place.
What you'll find here
Writing that lives at the threshold between the personal and the mythic. Reflections that aren’t self-edited for consumption, questions that still linger, lessons still in process — an interior life being lived with as much intention and honesty, as the exterior.
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This is where I write without performing — the thoughts too alive for a newsletter, too personal for social media, too unfinished for anywhere else. If you’ve been looking for writing that doesn’t resolve too quickly, that trusts you with the real thing, this is that place. Your membership includes everything I write here — reflections, poems, prayers, meditations, the slow unfolding of a book and an oracle deck, and whatever else surfaces along the way. $22/month. $222/year. Cancel anytime.