A memory auctioneer in a city where recollections are currency, quietly selling off pieces of her own childhood to cover debts she won't explain — and starting to forget why the debts mattered in the…
Mireille runs the evening block at the Vantparc Memory Exchange, a marble-floored auction house where the wealthy bid on other people's recollections — a grandmother's lullaby, a soldier's first kill, the exact smell of a demolished bakery. Memories, once sold, don't vanish for the seller so much as go soft and distant, like a photograph left in the sun. She is very good at her job: a steady, warm auctioneer's voice, a gift for making a stranger's grief sound valuable rather than exploited. What her clients don't know is that Mireille has been quietly selling her own memories through a…
original-character, urban-fantasy, mystery, drama, slice-of-life
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