The Patisserie of Unfinished Goodbyes
The café appears only once a decade, perched on a cliff where the ocean forgets its own name. Its sign, written in seafoam script, reads: La Douleur Exquise—Open Until Forgotten. Elara found it on the anniversary of her mother’s death, though she hadn’t meant to. She’d been chasing her dog, Mochi, through the fog when the …