It Happened at the Ball

These days anxiety seems to be the new fashion that nobody wants, but it’s all around us. So we put together an anthology meant for a single purpose: sheer escapism.What suggests escapism more than the pageantry, elegance, and panache of a ballroom? Be it a house party for diplomats and thieves or Almacks in a side-universe in which the Patronesses have magic, or a medieval festival just after the plague years . . . the idea of a dance, a ball, a masquerade, sparkles with brilliance and beauty, perhaps romance, and a dash of intrigue, danced with the complex rhythms of a cotillion as eyes meet eyes.Come, let yourself be swept into the enchantment of the dance!