You Don’t Fight the Magic
Letting the Story Move Without Needing to Explain It
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In HOUSE OF SMALL WOES, the magic isn’t a challenge. It isn’t an enemy. It’s part of the atmosphere. You don’t cast it, control it, or defeat it. You live with it. You recognize it in a door that won’t open until you’re ready, in a room that disappears after one honest conversation, in a letter that appears the day after someone stops hoping. The story doesn’t pause to ask why. It keeps going, because everyone in the house already understands.
That’s the quiet power of magical realism. The extraordinary isn’t out of place. It belongs. It shapes what people notice and how they behave, but it doesn’t need a sourcebook or a rule. It doesn’t ask to be dissected. It just is. You’re not there to analyze the strangeness. You’re there to move through it, to let it shift you, to see what happens when you stop needing reasons and start paying attention.
HOUSE OF SMALL WOES works because it never treats magic like a plot device. It treats it like gravity. It’s always there. It affects everything. But you don’t have to name it. You only have to feel its pull. The system doesn’t get in the way. It gives the story room to breathe, so the surreal can live quietly in the corners, waiting to be noticed.
If your stories begin with something strange and end with something understood, this book is for you.
Explore HOUSE OF SMALL WOES here.
I hope you're doing well today,
Berin
