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Croquet. Ghosts. Or maybe not ghosts. But definitely croquet. (The latest story in the Notes from an Imaginary Place series.)

To order at the restaurant under the sign of twin ibises, you need to write a menu no one can read.

Ice-skating, strange creatures, a long-suffering saint, and a 16-century painter.

You grew up in a capsule like these--playing, learning.  Now all these years later, you've come back.

A poem. A glass box. A voice coach. A heist.

Up in the branches of mile-high trees, a cartographer maps the routes between greenhouses.

In a place where the dead are never really gone, a hairdresser carries out his complicated profession on the deceased.

The old kilns are being converted into cozy living spaces. The only problem is that they're haunted, and not by ordinary ghosts.

An ecologist spends a summer in the dark and silent embassy as the honorary spy for the season.

An looking office in the downtown of a big city--everything seems ordinary enough from the outside, although you might wonder what's up with all those wires running to its roof. And if you could see inside, you might wonder even more.

An accountant begins to frequent a secret, but maybe not-so-secret, place.

Some years after an apocalypse has come and gone, a receptionist walks through a desert full of abandoned roads and becomes very aware of all the times that are not now and all the places that are not here.

In this episode, we travel to a depot on the edge of a continent and follow the journey of an X-ray technician, for whom it's the edge of much more.

About  visiting the library in the woods and finding something to read. Also about diagrams, birds on quests, and a strange fish.

This episode, we go to an archive, complete with various birds, diaries, and instructions for saddling your sea creature. The second story in a set that'll include one fantastical place for every letter in the alphabet. If you're interested, you can also receive these stories via an email newsletter which you can subscribe to here.