To not clog up my blurb, I'll do it here. Quick disclaimers and stuff and for the peeps who like skipping through things like this, joke's on you.

This is a collection of short stories submitted to Aim to Engage 2023, a contest hosted by the Ambassadors profile which runs from November to December. There are prompts that need to be followed, and you will see them in the following story prefaces.

You might have seen them published individually before, but I don't like too many standalones that don't do anything in my profile, so you will have this collection instead. To view the complete list of short stories and have an idea of what each one was about, visit the Table of Contents right after this part.

This is part of my personal content celebration season where I go wild and bust out content that is outside of my plans for the year. I call this cluster of works the AUXPR2023. This means "auxiliary projects of 2023". Therefore, if I want to extend it to the coming years, they can simply be known as AUXPR202X. There will be a part called The AUXPR2023 Works at the end of this book, so you can go ahead and see what else I have coming up on this celebration!

This is a series of standalone short stories, all under one universe (rather, multiverse). All can be read without reading any of the works in the series or any from my vast catalog.

This is an unedited draft. This is not line-edited so you'll see a lot of possible typos, some unflowy sentences, and most likely, some degree of bad phrasing. I see them all the time so don't worry, I'm way ahead of you there. No need to scream about it in my comments section.

I would advise you to avoid skipping anything in this story and that includes epilogues and the likes. Remember: everything is important in the Arcane Universes.

This story is set in a fictional world. Everything comes from my imagination and should be treated as such. I do my research and take inspiration from anything and everything but if there's something you feel iffy about, some detail that you think should not be there, please tell me so we can sort things out immediately. I will appreciate it. <3

And so, after all that, I will be ushering you to the literary venture I've always been wanting to try for so long. Expect all the things you'd expect in my longer works because I'm sure there will be some, if not more, of those sprinkled in.

The multiverse and its endless possibilities await you. Step in, and you'll be on your journey.