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The Iron Crown of DendralThe thing wrapped in lead cloth smelled of old copper and something sweeter, like roses left too long in a sealed room. Arthur Blackwood found it beneath a floorboard in the forge basement, where the damp had swollen the wood and loosened its nails. He was nineteen, slight of frame but broad-armed from years at the anvil, and he had learned by then to trust his nose above all else. The smell...0 Comments 0 Shares 32 Views 0 Reviews
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The pills taste like chalk and regret.I counted them on the kitchen counter this morning. Seven bottles, twenty-one pills. Seven different chemicals trying to hold together a body that wants to fall apart. The doctor calls it "chronic rejection syndrome." I call it Tuesday. Outside, the sky was the color of a television tuned to a dead channel. Gray. Flat. The kind of gray that settles over the Rust Belt in November and stays until...0 Comments 0 Shares 34 Views 0 Reviews
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The Lost BattalionAct I: The Night Train The train from Chicago to New York rattled through the dark like a man walking through a dream he couldn't quite remember. Leo Ashford sat by the window with his forehead pressed against the cold glass and his fingers drumming a rhythm on his knee that no one else could hear. His brother Jack was a trumpet player at the Savoy, and Leo had come to New York for one reason:...0 Comments 0 Shares 44 Views 0 Reviews
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THE NAME OF THE ROSEBrother Matteo had taken vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, but he had never promised to stop thinking. That was fortunate, because Brother Matteo thought constantly—about the movement of the stars, the properties of herbs, the hidden mathematics that governed God's creation. His current obsession was flight. In the year of Our Lord 1327, such thoughts were dangerous. The Inquisition was...0 Comments 0 Shares 19 Views 0 Reviews
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The Rust and the RainI woke up on a Tuesday in December 1992 and knew, in the way you know things when you've been drinking too much and can't quite remember why, that something was wrong with the calendar. It said December 8. But I remembered December. I remembered December 1993, when Donna would leave for Cleveland. I remembered December 1994, when Dad would die of cirrhosis. I remembered December 1995, when I'd...0 Comments 0 Shares 49 Views 0 Reviews
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The Afterlife AgencyThe salon on Madison Avenue smelled of gardenias and gin. Crystal chandeliers threw fractured light across a room full of people who had learned to wear their grief like jewelry—beautiful, heavy, and entirely performative. Thomas Ashworth stood near the fireplace, adjusting his cuffs, watching the crowd with the practiced detachment of a man who had seen too many funerals and not enough peace....0 Comments 0 Shares 14 Views 0 Reviews
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The Pattern in the ArchiveThe first discrepancy appeared on a Tuesday in October, and Marcus Webb dismissed it as a glitch in his memory, which was to say he dismissed nothing, because his memory did not glitch, and he knew this the way a mathematician knows that two plus two equals four. The department meeting had twelve people in attendance. Marcus remembered this clearly: he had counted them when they entered the...0 Comments 0 Shares 19 Views 0 Reviews
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Blood and the Iron GardenThe iron fence around the Thorne plantation was not merely decorative. It was the physical embodiment of a contract made in blood. Bell Thorne knew this because Maw Maw had told her, and Maw Maw knew everything, and in the Mississippi delta, knowing everything was the same as carrying a curse. The fence was beautiful in the way that things built on suffering always are—elaborate, intricate,...0 Comments 0 Shares 22 Views 0 Reviews
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The Ghost BrokerI sit at my desk and type the numbers into the ledger. That's my job. Number four today was a teacher, fifty-two years old, wanted to speak to his wife of thirty years. The machine behind the wall hummed at a frequency I could feel in my teeth. Jack was in there with her, using the same voice he used with everybody—low, slow, the kind of voice that makes you want to believe him. When she came...0 Comments 0 Shares 21 Views 0 Reviews
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