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Unclaimed
The lost property office at Harrow Street closes for good at midnight. Three things left on the shelf. Forty minutes. Someone is on their way.
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Eleven Outages
An ice storm on Vancouver Island. You're the overnight dispatcher for a small power co-op: eleven outages, three tired crews, one spare transformer, a
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Reads Zero
It's 2:40 a.m. and Walter in 1B says he smells gas again. Third night in a row. The meter has never found anything. You're the super, it's nine below,
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Proof
Your neighbor Irene taught you to make bread once, eleven years ago. Her funeral reception is tomorrow at ten, and her daughter has asked you to bring
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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