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The Weight of KnowledgeThomas Ashworth was twenty-three when he discovered the notebook, and he was already tired of being tired. The mansion on Kensington Square had been his workplace for eleven months. His duties were simple: dust the library each morning, polish the brass fittings on the door frames, and avoid looking directly at the portraits of people whose names he was never told. The work paid twelve...0 Комментарии 0 Поделились 51 Просмотры 0 предпросмотр
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The Crown of DustThe humid air of the Congo Basin felt like a wet blanket draped over Captain Alistair Finch's shoulders. He wiped the grime from his brass monocle, staring at the impenetrable wall of emerald green that lay before him. Behind him, his small contingent of porters and a disgraced botanist named Dr. Aristhone were hacking through the undergrowth with a desperation that bordered on madness. Finch...0 Комментарии 0 Поделились 89 Просмотры 0 предпросмотр
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The Mirror's EdgeYou wake up in a room that feels like a memory of someone else's life. The walls are a pale, clinical white, and the air tastes of ozone and sterile linen. You don't remember your name, but you remember the feeling of a hand in yours—a warmth that is now a phantom ache in your palm. You are a "Subject," a designation given to you by the men in the grey suits who visit you every morning. They...0 Комментарии 0 Поделились 11 Просмотры 0 предпросмотр
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The Keeper of the Blackwood WildsThe wind across the Blackwood moors did not blow so much as it hunted, finding every gap in Angus MacAllister's coat, every weakness in the stone walls of the house that had been his family's for three hundred years. He stood at the window of the library, watching fog roll down from the peaks like a slow tide, and wondered whether the dead were happier in their certainty than the living were in...0 Комментарии 0 Поделились 72 Просмотры 0 предпросмотр
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The Unlikely ImmuneThe grocery store owner died on a Monday. No one knew why. The doctor said heart attack. The coroner agreed. The store was closed on Tuesday. The shelves were empty by Wednesday. Bill Henderson heard about it at the bar. He drank a beer. He drank another. He went home. Another one died on Thursday. An old woman on Elm Street. She had been sick for months. Cancer, they said. But when she died,...0 Комментарии 0 Поделились 49 Просмотры 0 предпросмотр
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The Long Island SanatoriumThe jazz played from a gramophone in the corner of the newsroom, a thin reedy sound that barely competed with the clatter of typewriters and the murmur of a hundred men deciding what the world should think. I sat at my desk with a cigarette burning down between my fingers and stared at the telegram on the paper in front of me. Eileen Foster, it said. Last seen: Oakcliff Sanatorium, Long Island....0 Комментарии 0 Поделились 14 Просмотры 0 предпросмотр
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The Black SignalACT I: THE GIFT The rain in Los Angeles didn't wash things clean. It made everything worse, turning the grime of the city into a slick black paste that coated everything from the sidewalks to the inside of Jack Morretti's lungs. Jack had come home from the war in '46 with a head full of holes and a pocket full of nothing. Not the nothing of a man who had no money—the nothing of a man who had no...0 Комментарии 0 Поделились 55 Просмотры 0 предпросмотр
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The Blank PageJack Morrison came back from the Pacific with a medal he did not want and a head full of things he could not unsee. Los Angeles in 1945 was a city of people running from something. The war was over, but the people who had been to the war had not finished running. They came to L.A. looking for sunshine and found a different kind of heat — the kind that sat on your chest and made you sweat...0 Комментарии 0 Поделились 39 Просмотры 0 предпросмотр
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The Fog at Blackwater IsleThe fog came in on the tide, as it always did, thick and yellow as old wool. I stood at the rail of the small steamer and watched Blackwater Isle emerge from the whiteness like a hand rising from water. The fort that stood upon it was a ruin even in daylight—black stone, broken battlements, the silhouette of a man who had designed it for war now repurposed for something far worse. Madness, they...0 Комментарии 0 Поделились 68 Просмотры 0 предпросмотр