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The Keeper of BlackfriarsI am Arthur Winchester, thirty-two years old and accomplished of nothing. I sit each morning at a desk in the financial district, copying numbers into ledgers that will outlive me by perhaps a decade, while the men above me in the towers of Threadneedle Street purchase something I can never afford: two hundred additional years of life. They call it the Perpetual Tincture. An alchemical...0 Comments 0 Shares 14 Views 0 Reviews
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The Star LessonThe Star LessonAct I: The Last TermThe schoolhouse was small. Small enough that Margaret O'Sullivan could see every student from where she stood at the blackboard. Seven children, ages eight to fourteen, sitting at wooden desks that had belonged to their parents and their parents' parents before them.The roof leaked in three places. Margaret had put buckets under each leak and checked them...0 Comments 0 Shares 20 Views 0 Reviews
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ACT IDr. Julian Frost found his own biography in a Taiping archival document, written in 1854—twenty years before he was born. The discovery happened on a Tuesday, in the imperial archives of Tianjing, where Julian had spent the last three months cataloging rebel propaganda and religious texts for his forthcoming Oxford publication. He was thirty-two, a man of meticulous habits and rational...0 Comments 0 Shares 45 Views 0 Reviews
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Title: The Echo of RustThe air in the crypt was not air at all, but a thick, tasting soup of damp earth and ancient iron. I could feel the rust of the cross eating into my wrists, a slow, rhythmic gnawing that matched the throb of my own spectral heart. I am Elias, or I was. Now, I am merely the Anchor. The ritual began with a sound like a wet sheet tearing. A fissure opened in the grey stone of the ceiling, and from...0 Comments 0 Shares 40 Views 0 Reviews
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Title: The Associate's AscentThe boardroom was a masterpiece of corporate occultism. The table was a single slab of obsidian, the chairs were carved from the bone of extinct leviathans, and the view from the windows was a swirling vortex of grey clouds and floating skyscrapers. I was the Junior Associate. My "cross" was a gold-plated contract, its fine print etched into my skin with a laser of concentrated spite. I was...0 Comments 0 Shares 46 Views 0 Reviews
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The Signal from Lily BrennanThe Signal from Lily BrennanAct I: The Pattern in the StaticThe signal arrived on a Tuesday in October, buried in seven weeks of static that James Callaghan had been monitoring as part of a routine survey of the cosmic microwave background. He was not looking for it. He was not even looking at the right frequency when his graduate student, a bright kid from Ohio named David, called him over to...0 Comments 0 Shares 26 Views 0 Reviews
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The Bone Ring ElegyThe bone lay on the silver platter like a secret someone had decided to stop keeping. Eleanor Graves stood over it in the lamplight of her private laboratory, the candle placed three feet away to avoid contaminating the evidence. She was twenty-eight, widowed at twenty-three, and had spent the last five years learning the language of dead things. Bones spoke. Teeth testified. Hair carried the...0 Comments 0 Shares 18 Views 0 Reviews
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The Dome of Evelyn MarchettiThe Dome of Evelyn MarchettiAct I: The BubbleThe soap factory on the Lower East Side smelled of lye and hot water, a smell Evelyn Marchetti had grown up with and never learned to hate. At thirty-four, she could still smell her mother's hands—rough from years of scrubbing other people's floors, smelling perpetually of lavender soap and exhaustion."Look," Evelyn said, blowing across the surface...0 Comments 0 Shares 29 Views 0 Reviews
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The Efficiency of VoidK did not have a name in the way other people did; he had a designation. In the city of Neo-Symmetry, existence was a series of optimization problems. Every citizen wore a "Performance HUD" that quantified their efficiency in real-time. *Walking Speed: 1.4 m/s (Optimal). Caloric Intake: 1,200 kcal (Optimal). Social Interaction: 12 mins (Optimal).* K was the most optimal man in the sector. He...0 Comments 0 Shares 29 Views 0 Reviews
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