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When the Sky Remembers Our Names
To save the world, they must return every name it was built to forget.
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See allCitizen Null
Mara Venn, a trusted Civic Identity reconciliation analyst, investigates an impossible citizen whose records exist everywhere but whose identity exists nowhere. Her search reveals Citizen Null: a composite identity creat…
Adventures of Beava
Beava Cedarbank can fix a door before breakfast. Getting her family through a summer of drought, fire and flood is another matter. When Papa is swept out of sight, Beava brings Nana and their four kits to Vancouver. They…
Shared Power
A record heat wave and a three-day blackout turn Midvale's food-truck rally into the neighborhood's only functioning kitchen. Rival owners Maya and Leo have one generator, incompatible menus, and years of resentment betw…
The Last Live Hour
Tonight is the final broadcast of WVAL, the Appalachian valley’s beloved community radio station. In the cramped studio, four people face the microphone for the last time: Marian Pike, the station manager who made the ca…
The Standing Order
Mara tends an officially dead lighthouse on Black Rock because routine is easier than returning to the mainland. Then a crate arrives for Elias Croft, keeper deceased since 1971, containing lamp oil, six bowls, and a log…
The White Verdict
You are the operations deputy on an Everest expedition whose equipment auditor dies above the Icefall. At first the death looks like altitude and bad hardware. Then oxygen counts fail, weather data disappears, and the on…
The Ninth Harvest
On the Ark Verdant, agronomist Tamsin Cole has spent her life tending the crops that keep humanity alive. But when she notices subtle anomalies in the Ninth Harvest cycle—wilting that shouldn't happen, nutrient levels dr…
The Seed Vault Petition
The Agri-Committee is in uproar. Botanist Mira has filed a petition to open a single drawer of the sacred seed vault to combat a blight ravaging the cassava crop. Engineer Kael denounces it as a violation of the Charter …
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Nell Achebe is second cover for Lady Macbeth at the decaying Gallowgate repertory, a theatre permanently three weeks from closure. She knows the role better than anyone except Delphine Marr, sixty-two, magnificent, and a…
The Inheritance of Time
In an alternate timeline, lifespan is transferable property—measurable, contractible, inheritable. The rich buy decades from the poor; charities operate Time Banks to keep children and the sick alive; and governments tre…
LaLaLand
Dominion is a discreet, female-governed behavioral consultancy operating behind government contracts, legal loopholes, and corporate necessity. Its public function is compliance optimization. Its private function is the …
Acting Director of Civic Dignity
The Director of Civic Events has vanished eleven minutes before Civicopolis opens its new Office of Streamlined Permits. You are appointed Acting Director and handed four dangerous instruments: the master schedule, the p…
The Night Signal
For eleven years, someone has been a regular voice on WBWD-AM, the community radio station that serves as the heartbeat of Bitterwood Valley. When the station’s licence renewal is unexpectedly challenged, the volunteers …
The Salt Register
In the frozen Baltic port of the amber guild, a new apprentice named Sven arrives to take up the least desirable post in the guildhall: reconciling forty years of neglected assay books. The work is tedious and cold, conf…
The Winter Assay
In the depths of a Baltic winter, the Assay Office of Kühlhaven discovers a one-gram daily discrepancy in its amber ledger. Master Assayer Grigory, a man who trusts only his scales, must find the source of the error befo…
The Gradient
In the summer of 1937, an engineer named Tomás Arismendi arrives in Larija to survey the branch line for closure. He is methodical, solitary, and certain that the railway is a financial drain that must be terminated. His…
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