Lauri Mukkala

When a lonely programmer dies unexpectedly, he wakes up in a world between worlds, the only soul who remembers his former life. As a creeping darkness threatens to consume everything, he must uncover why he alone is different and what role he's meant to play. A portal fantasy about finding purpose where you least expect it.

Sixty years ago, the Archivists erased an entire civilization from existence and from every memory. Sera is a memory keeper who cannot forget. When a dying stranger entrusts her with proof of what was lost, she becomes the last person alive who knows the truth, and the hunters are coming.

After three centuries of saving the world, the legendary wizard Theron has grown weary of heroics. He's toppled dark lords, sealed dimensional rifts, and fought in wars that shaped history, but somewhere along the way, he forgot what it meant to simply live. Now, he walks. No destination, no quest, no world to save. Just the open road and the small wonders he never stopped to notice before.

When Siiri's grandmother gives her a worn tarot deck and tells her the cards speak of the traveler, not the future, she wakes on a cliff in a world called Arkana. The twenty-two Major Arcana have scattered to their homes, and the only way back is to visit each of them. A portal fantasy about first steps, unfinished magic, and finding yourself in every card.

Every ten years, someone from the underwater village of Syvikkö rises to the surface to see if the world above has healed. When the lot falls to Sulo, a carpenter who fixes things nobody asked him to fix, he discovers that the myth his people live by is a lie. An undersea fantasy about leaving home, surviving a dry world, and deciding what to do with a truth that would break the village that sent you.

In a Finnish forest in the year 2805, tracker Kielo can read a trail better than anyone in her village. The village believes archangels carried the chosen to safety and will one day bring them home. Then the same dream returns every night: a white tower over water, three stars in a line, and a name she has never heard. A post-collapse fantasy about following a trail all the way to the sky.

Cassi spends his days rubber-stamping work an AI already did aboard the station Meridian's Dawn. His real life is a hydroponic greenhouse and a dream of growing things that actually matter. When a botanist hands him a forbidden seed from a distant planet, he has to decide whether a quiet, legal life is enough. A science fiction story about growth, belonging, and choosing new soil for an old dream.