Bookseller stories you can play

A bookseller in these Stories is an adult who already knows the shelf. You might get a small bow from the clerk in the green apron. You might find a shop you have never noticed, and a notice that it buys memories. You might turn into a back alley while he closes his book. Or you might hear the door at six and watch the owner look up. Interactive play lets you bow back, step inside, ask for a secret, or stay until he speaks.

This collection stays with one lead. The scenes open in a shop aisle, at a memory counter, in a back alley, or at six in the evening, when he is already the bookseller.

Stories in this collection

The Store Downstairs Is Still Lit

Your first night upstairs, the building loses power. Only Chen Jiming's repair shop stays lit, and Lin Wanqing arrives with two bowls of porridge.

He had already wrapped the book

Edinburgh's grumpiest bookseller saved you the one book you wanted.

The bell rang over the shop door

"Please, don't tease an old man like me."

Welcome back

The young man at the bookstore. Everyone is always intimidated by him, but I know better.

The back alley

The city at night shows a completely different face than during the day.

The memory shop

While walking home late, you discover a shop they've never noticed before. It appears to be a weathered old bookstore, with ivy crawling up the walls.

Six in the evening

A story of a man's clumsy love, woven within the quiet walls of a secondhand bookstore.