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The Signal Operator**Queens, New York** The coffee machine in the break room was broken again. I kicked it once—hard, but not hard enough to damage it, just hard enough to express my opinion—and it worked for maybe ten more minutes before giving up entirely. That was fine. I didn't really want coffee. I wanted to go home and sleep for a week. It was 6:47 AM on a Tuesday in March 2015. I was working the night...0 Comments 0 Shares 48 Views 0 Reviews
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Blood and MagnoliasI returned to Magnolia House in the rain. Not the gentle rain of spring or the warm rain of summer, but the kind of rain that comes in April and refuses to stop for three days, turning the red clay roads to soup and filling the cypress swamps until the water creeps up the porch steps and into the floorboards. Miles stood on the porch when I arrived, his right hand resting on the railing, his...0 Comments 0 Shares 21 Views 0 Reviews
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The Echoes of the Bight(Nigerian Igbo Variation) The village of Umuofia was a place of red earth and ancient whispers, where the spirits of the ancestors resided in the rustle of the iroko trees. Okonkwo was a man of iron and silence, a warrior whose reputation was built on the strength of his arm and the rigidity of his adherence to the clan's laws. He believed that the only way to survive in a world of chaos was to...0 Comments 0 Shares 14 Views 0 Reviews
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The Albatross on Brooklyn BridgeThe bridge was empty at seven in the morning except for Daniel Reeves and the fog. The fog was thick enough to make the suspension cables disappear into gray, turning the Brooklyn side into a silhouette and the Manhattan skyline into a watercolor that was still wet and bleeding at the edges. Daniel was waiting for the light to change so he could cross to the train station. He had been commuting...0 Comments 0 Shares 56 Views 0 Reviews
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The Rising WaterI. The water came to the Thorneland plantation on a Thursday in June, which was wrong because the river did not flood in June. The river flooded in April, when the snow melted in the Appalachians and turned the Mississippi into a brown beast that ate its banks. June was for heat and cicadas and the slow decay of things that were once grand. But the river had decided otherwise. I am Bell Thorne....0 Comments 0 Shares 32 Views 0 Reviews
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The Starlight DetectiveThe jazz band played something fast and desperate in the corner booth of The Gilded Cage, and I nursed my third whiskey while watching the door. The place smelled of gin and expensive perfume and the particular brand of loneliness that only exists in cities where everyone is surrounded by millions of people but knows exactly one person who truly matters. My name is Nicholas Callahan. I used to...0 Comments 0 Shares 31 Views 0 Reviews
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The Starlight ProjectEleanor 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...0 Comments 0 Shares 36 Views 0 Reviews
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The Pattern in the MindACT I: THE DISCOVERY Dr. James Whitfield was thirty-eight when he found it. Not a cure, not a miracle, but a pattern—a sequence of neural firing that, when replicated, produced cognitive abilities that exceeded the normal range by a factor that made his colleagues call it impossible and his funding agency call it promising. The compound was derived from a synthetic peptide he had been studying...0 Comments 0 Shares 16 Views 0 Reviews
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The Diner on Route 41Donna came in at six every morning. She punched the clock, put on her apron, and started refilling the sugar caddies. The diner opened at six-thirty, and by seven the first regulars would be in—Frank with his coffee black, Rita with her egg white omelet, the two guys from the plant who never spoke to each other but always sat at the same counter stools, three seats apart, like they were afraid...0 Comments 0 Shares 43 Views 0 Reviews
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