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  • The Mirror of Sighs
    The mirror arrived on a Tuesday, wrapped in burlap and tied with twine that had been yellow with age. It came from Cynthia's grandmother's estate in Paris, a city she had never visited and knew only through photographs and her grandmother's occasional references to "the old family things" that had been sent ahead of her when she married into the Vane family and fled the social scandals of...
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  • Sound from the Underground
    Sound from the Underground Act I The door was supposed to lead to Lopez s massage parlor. Yuna had taken a wrong turn in the building s stairwell, reached the second basement instead of the first, and pushed open a door marked Exit only in reverse, the arrow pointing inward like an accusation. What she found was a room that had been a garage at some point in its long life, now stripped of...
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  • THE HOLLOW MERIDIAN
    ACT I: THE LOCKED ROOM (20%) The rifle was too heavy for Corinne to lift. It was an old thing—World War I era, maybe older, with a walnut stock worn smooth by a hundred hands and a barrel that had seen more use than any weapon should. It sat on a shelf in the Thorne family library, behind glass, and every person who had entered that room since 1919 had left with the same instruction from...
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  • The Altar of the Pure
    The community of "The Pure" lived in a walled enclave in the heart of New York, a sanctuary of white linen and absolute silence. They believed that the outside world was a cacophony of sin and that the only way to achieve salvation was through the total erasure of the "Self." Maya was a mother who had found refuge in the Pure, bringing her young son, Leo, into the fold. But the sanctuary had a...
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  • The Basement Chronicles
    The air in Sector 4 was a thick soup of recycled oxygen and the smell of ozone. Elias spent his days crawling through the ventilation shafts of the Ark, a subterranean city designed to house the "Essential Population" during the Great Erasure. He was a Level 3 Maintenance Technician, which meant he was invisible. To the architects of the Ark, Elias was not a human; he was a biological component...
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  • THE PATIENT FROM BELOW
    Dr. Arthur Voss could not remember how he had arrived at the hospital. This was not, strictly speaking, true. He remembered driving through Vienna on a February evening in 1896, the gas lamps casting amber pools on the wet cobblestones, the carriages bouncing over puddles that reflected the windows of the cafés where men sat drinking brandy and talking about the future of the Balkans. He...
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  • The Invisible Hand's Puppet
    The rain in New York didn't wash anything away; it only made the grime shine. Elias Vance lived in the grey space between the skyscrapers, a man whose life was a series of perfectly executed trades and carefully curated silences. To the world, Elias was the "Oracle of the East Side," a hedge fund manager with a supernatural ability to predict market pivots seconds before they happened. He lived...
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  • The Red Fox Protocol
    The Undergrid had seven access levels. Leo Kowalski had been to Level 4 once, years ago, and had never wanted to return. Level 4 was where the city's discarded infrastructure lived — abandoned server farms, decommissioned transit tunnels, walls covered in data-graffiti that glowed faintly in the dark like bioluminescent algae. Level 5 and below were places Dex Morrison described as "the city's...
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  • The Lightning That Consumed
    The fog clung to London like a shroud in the winter of 1888, and within its grey embrace, a ball of golden light hovered over the Thames, unseen by most but felt by all who passed beneath it on their way home from work or pleasure. Eleanor Vance stood at the window of her father's former laboratory on Gower Street, watching the fog roll in from the river. She was twenty-eight years old, an age...
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  • The Greystone Investigation
    I. Marcus Reed had been driving a taxi in Brooklyn for fifteen years. Fifteen years of watching the city change and not changing at the same time. The bodega on the corner was still a bodega. The fire escape on his building still squeaked at three in the morning. And the people were still the same—tired, hurried, and trying to get from point A to point B without thinking about point C, which...
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  • The Rust Belt
    I. The truck wouldn't start. I kicked the tire and the tire kicked back, or at least that's how it felt—solid, unyielding, exactly as stubborn as everything else in this town. Danny stood on the porch watching me. He was sixteen, all elbows and attitude, wearing a hoodie that was too big and a look on his face that said he was already tired of me and this town and everything that came with...
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  • The Starlight Project
    Eleanor Vanderbilt did not believe in ghosts. She believed in ledgers, in property holdings, in the solid arithmetic of wealth. But when Nick Callahan described the man on Long Island—the man who claimed to have found a crack in the universe—she felt something she could not name settle in her chest. "Tell me again," she said. Nick shifted in his chair. The Vanderbilt drawing room was warm and...
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