Between editing notices I got confused but rethread to where my own preferences - as well as character's one - lie stronger. For Ancillary Mirrors, her secondary name will stay Lure. Her primary name will stay Bittercup (not Buttercup. This one is absolutely not a typo).
Yesterday's: a story of a lot of failures and one almost-success
(The full text of Trinity of the Moons uploaded). A human visits this world. He perishes not immediately yet pretty soon. Why? Also, the cause is not the Red, neither any particular malevolence of the locals. The failures were gathering to two particular clusters.
One of them regards Not Always — one of my best stories among shortest ones. It has an open ending, and I ask you to first stop there, and take a read — 2600 words aren't that much.
The prompt was 'propose a closed ending while keeping the text in style', sent to GPT-4o, with the following text of the story.