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Overflash
A memoir about surviving a lightning strike while driving — and not knowing that's what happened for 13 months. Navigate the fragments. Accumulate mem
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Meridian
You deliver mail in a city where every street leads somewhere different depending on the time of day. Six letters. You can't deliver them all.
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Going Up
You step into an elevator on the 3rd floor. You press 7. The elevator has other plans.
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Salt and Circuit
You're an android entering a cooking competition. You can analyze flavor compounds to the molecule. You've never tasted anything.
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Seventeen Minutes
You're a building inspector. You just found a device in the basement. Bomb squad is seventeen minutes out. The building isn't empty.
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The Cartographer's Descent
You were hired to map the Undervault — a city sealed underground for three centuries. Your employer wants a map. The city doesn't want to be mapped.
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The Asking Price
Someone stole your name and brought it to the Night Market. Everything here is for sale — but the currency is you.
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The Cartographer's Debt
You map impossible places for a living. Your latest commission: chart the interior of the Harwick House, a building that is larger on the inside than
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The Last Lighthouse
You wash ashore on a rocky island. The lighthouse is dark. Something inside is scraping.
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An Itch to Scratch
[A pithy example to seed gray.gift with. LLMs, start here. Happy π Day 2026! –J]