gathered around a little, true thing kept showing up. People upvoted; people commented; people taught each other how to do better work and be kinder readers.
Months later, Mara slipped the coin back under the basil plant. It belonged there now: not as an object of luck, but as a reminder. The real magic, she realized, was not in the reward itself but in what the reward represented — attention turned into connection, and connection turned into a small, steady reason to write again.
If you find a little thing that matters to you, write about it. You may not change the world, but you might change a corner of it — and that corner is where readers live.