Our three summer stories at Mysterion strike a lighter tone, but darkness always threatens, whether through unjust authority or unpredictable nature.

In Gretchen Tessmer's "My Gallery Granddaughter", the Curator's authority over paintings is absolute. But why, wonders the subject of one, should the Curator have the power to choose who stays in the gallery and who gets banished to storage?

Joshua Lampkins returns to Mysterion with a story about how faith is "Bright and Distant as the Moons", in which a priest has to decide whether to put others in danger to uphold the principles of a religion he isn't sure he believes in anymore.

Finally, in "Timestorm", by L.H. Phillips, a man finds his comfortable solitude challenged by visitations from the past, and a long-ago catastrophe that he can't possibly avert.