0 Comments
0 Shares
0 Views
0 Reviews
Directory
Discover new ideas, create new connections and make new friends
-
Please log in to like, share and comment!
-
The Golden OathAct I MUNICIPAL NOTICE: The final ledger of the 1990s civic debt is required for digitization by October 1st. Failure to comply will result in immediate suspension of pension benefits. Elvira Sabella held the paper until the edges creased into her palms. She was fifty-two, and the weight of the notice was heavier than the ledger it referenced. Outside, the wind took the washing from the line,...0 Comments 0 Shares 0 Views 0 Reviews
-
The Faded ParadoxThe air in the shitamachi district always tasted of rust and damp wool. Setsuko Fujiwara stood in the doorway of her narrow house, the silk of her late husband’s kimono clinging to her shoulders like a second skin. It was the last fine weekend, the one everyone agreed to forget, the day the sky turned the color of bruised plums before the storm broke. She had come to clear his name. The fraud...0 Comments 0 Shares 0 Views 0 Reviews
-
The Wistful AsylumWhat does a life cost when it is written in ink that drinks? Radmila Ivanovic stood in the center of the sealed warehouse, the air thick with the metallic tang of rust and the damp, salty rot of the sea fret pressing against the corrugated tin roof. She was thirty-four, though the Mirror Ink had stolen three years of her vitality, leaving her joints stiff and her breath shallow, a physical debt...0 Comments 0 Shares 0 Views 0 Reviews
-
The Wistful DinnerThe hand of Elias Thorne moved with the precise, mechanical rhythm of a man who had spent twenty years holding a rifle steady, his fingers closing around the cold iron of the bedside table, the metal biting into the skin of his palm as he woke from the dream of the burning chapel, the heat of the flames still ghosting across his retinas even though the room was plunged into a damp, biting cold...0 Comments 0 Shares 0 Views 0 Reviews
-
The Distant AffairChapter One The river at Cochin ran black with oil and the promise of war. Steamships groaned against the pilings, their hulls scraping the mud as the dockworkers hauled crates of rubber and tea toward the waiting barges. The air tasted of coal dust and sweat, a thick, gray blanket that settled on the tongue and stayed there. Meena Gupta stood at the edge of the pier, her hands shoved deep into...0 Comments 0 Shares 0 Views 0 Reviews
-
The Wistful IncenseThe ink on the contract was still wet, spreading into the grain of the parchment like a bruise that would not heal. Vessa Maiden stood in the hallway of coats and bicycles, the air heavy with damp wool and old rust, listening to the dry thunder of no rain that shook the windows of the palace. He was thirty-two years old, and his pension was due by the autumn solstice, a deadline that hung over...0 Comments 0 Shares 0 Views 0 Reviews
-
The Golden Suspect"You are holding the feather wrong, Nazario." The Director’s voice was dry as the dust that coated the archival shelves, a sound like paper tearing in a quiet room. Nazario Domínguez did not look up. His hands, stained with the grease of the orbital welder’s tethering kit, adjusted the synthetic quill. It was not a bird’s feather. It was a lure. A marker. The Golden Suspect had not been...0 Comments 0 Shares 0 Views 0 Reviews
-
The Distant GhostThe paper is damp, Aram, you cannot file it in this state. I held the deed to my father’s land out with both hands, my fingers stained black with the peat smoke that clung to everything in the valley, and watched the clerk, Davit, pull it back as if it were a dead rat. He was young, only twenty-six, with the kind of clean, arrogant face that only the government could produce, and he looked at...0 Comments 0 Shares 0 Views 0 Reviews
-
The Wistful CrossroadsInventory, Seed Vault 4: Oryza sativa, viability 12%. Vigna radiata, viability 8%. Phaseolus vulgaris, viability 4%. Qing Chen read the ledger line three times, the ink smudging under his thumb. The number was not a statistic; it was a weight. It sat in the pit of his stomach, heavier than the steel tongs he used to sort the brittle husks. Outside the model flat, the mill wheel turned with a...0 Comments 0 Shares 0 Views 0 Reviews
Arabic
French
Spanish
Portuguese
Deutsch
Turkish
Dutch
Italiano
Russian
Romaian
Portuguese (Brazil)
Greek