Dazzling short stories from the internationally bestselling author Olivie Blake. Once upon a time in a land far, far away, the tutelary spirit to a magical bridge rapidly approaches burnout. Meanwhile, congress enacts a complex auditing system designed to un-waste your youth, a banished fairy answers a Craigslist ad, a Victorian orphan gains literacy for her occult situationship and a multiverse assassin contemplates the one who got away Escape the slow trudge of mortality with these magical ruminations on life, death and the love (or revenge) that outlasts both, featuring modified fairytales, contemporary heists, absurdist poetry and at least one set of actual wedding vows. Januaries is collection of new and existing short stories from the internationally bestselling author Olivie Blake 'Olivie Blake is a mind-blowing talent' ? Chloe Gong, author of These Violent Delights