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  • The Woman on the Top Floor
    Marsh House stood on a quiet square in Mayfair, one of those townhouses that looked dignified from the street and rotting from the inside. The ground floor was a restaurant where Lord Marsh entertained his friends -- men who wore monocles at dinner and spoke in tones that suggested they had something to hide. The middle floors were bedrooms, each one more gaudily decorated than the last,...
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  • The Crystallization of Edward Ashworth
    The human mind does not break. It crystallizes. This was the conclusion that Dr. Edward Ashworth arrived at during his fifty-eighth year, on a Thursday evening in Paris, when the October fog rolled in from the Seine and settled in the narrow streets of the Left Bank like a second skin. He sat in his consulting room on the Rue de Seine, staring at the wall, and the wall stared back at him with a...
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  • Shadow of the Wings
    The bar was called The Velvet Hour, which was the kind of name that told you everything you needed to know about the kind of place it was: dim, expensive, and full of men who paid for drinks they would not remember the next morning. Vera Martinez sat at the far end of the counter with her newspaper portfolio beside her and a glass of rye that she was drinking slowly because she had been...
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  • The Resident
    2:17 AM. The fluorescent lights in the emergency department of Bellevue Hospital hummed at a frequency that Marcus Chen was certain was designed by someone who hated human beings. He sat at the nursing station, typing up discharge summaries for three patients who had been stabilized and released, when the overhead pager on his belt vibrated. Code Blue. Floor 12. Room 1204. Marcus was already...
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  • Beneath the Crimson Glow
    The year was 1925, and New York was a city that had forgotten how to sleep. Jazz spilled from the basement bars of Harlem like liquid gold, stock brokers threw money at the sky and caught it, and on the streets of Manhattan, a hundred different dreams collided in a cacophony of ambition and desperation. I was one of those dreams. Or at least, I had been. My name is Robert Hudson, and I was...
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  • The Patient from Below
    Chapter I: The Braking The letter arrived on a Friday, which in Vienna is the day when everyone pretends the weekend is going to save them from things they should have dealt with on Monday. It was typed on government stationery, in a font that was designed to look friendly but achieved only the effect of a smile that does not reach the eyes. The letter informed me that the Weiss Institute for...
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  • The Lottery of Ruins
    (Variant V-09: Southern Gothic) The town of Oakhaven was a place of rotting porches and weeping willows, where the air always tasted of salt and decay. After the Radiance, the children of Oakhaven didn't build a republic; they built a lottery. The "High Law" was simple: the town's resources—the last working generator, the clean water well, the stockpile of canned peaches—were distributed via a...
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  • THE PARANOIA ENGINE
    Dr. Henry Webb was giving a lecture on cognitive asymmetry at the University of Chicago when a woman in a dark suit handed him an envelope during the question-and-answer period. The lecture hall was mostly empty — it was a Thursday afternoon in April, and most of his students had better things to do. The envelope was plain white, unsealed, and contained a single sheet of paper. The paper held a...
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  • The Starlight Idealists
    I. The apartment on Washington Square smelled of cigarette smoke and turpentine and something that might have been ambition. It was November 1923, and Thomas Crawford was twenty-six years old, standing in his underwear on a steamer trunk, adjusting the focus on a telescope he had bought from a liquidation sale in Brooklyn for twelve dollars. Through the window, he could see the Manhattan...
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  • The Keeper at the Threshold of Pressure
    William Hartley stood at the base of Bell Rock Light on the twenty-third day of his fourteenth year, and the weight of the tower above him pressed down as if the stone itself had learned to grieve. The morning fog rolled in from the Atlantic in dense grey curtains, muffling the sound of waves against the granite foundations, and William felt the cold seep through his wool coat like a slow...
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  • The Steam Ascension
    I wanted to see the stars. That was the simple truth of it, the thing I told myself every morning when I woke in my cold room above the warehouse and found that the fog had returned, thick as wool and just as suffocating. I wanted to see the stars without the interference of atmosphere, without the yellow haze of London gaslight blurring their edges, without the smoke of a million chimneys...
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  • Still Breathing in the Trenches
    The bread was bad. That was the first thing James noticed when he woke up in the barracks. It was gray and hard and smelled like something had died in it. He took a bite anyway because he was hungry and hungry makes you eat things you would not normally eat. The man next to him was snoring. Hans, he thought. The name came to him from somewhere, maybe from a conversation he had overheard two...
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