Gerald Powell

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2026-06-02 00:32:37 -

Seven Dead Ends
I. The rain in Los Angeles doesn't wash things clean. It just makes the dirt slicker. I stood outside the office building on Wilshire Boulevard, watching the water run down the windows, carrying with it the accumulated grime of a city that had forgotten how to clean itself. The building was unremarkable—four stories of beige concrete, a sign that read "MORRIS & ASSOCIATES" in letters that had...

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2026-05-30 06:29:23 -

The Unobserved State
The Unobserved State There are things we believe because we have seen them, and there are things we believe because we have been told, and there are things we believe because the alternative is unbearable. Judge Callahan believed that his grandson's brain was alive, suspended in a cylinder of pale fluid, wired into the control system of a Ford Roadster. He believed this because he had paid for...

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2026-05-31 17:02:40 -

The Constant in the Noise
I remember the smell of the basement—a mixture of damp concrete, old newspapers, and the metallic scent of the space heater that always threatened to burn the house down. Mr. Harrison didn't look like a savior. He was a small, frail man with a voice that sounded like dry leaves skittering across a sidewalk. I was seventeen, a kid from the Bronx with a chip on my shoulder and a future that...

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2026-06-04 06:21:57 -

The Memory Kitchen
## Act I: The First Taste Julian Cross could not taste whiskey. It wasn't that his mouth was numb. It wasn't that he had lost his sense of touch in his mouth like he had lost his sense of hearing in his left ear (that was the shell shock, the shrapnel that had taken everything from the jawline up). His tongue worked. His mouth worked. The whiskey went in, and the whiskey came out, and in...

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2026-06-06 05:42:44 -

The Adaptation of the Witness
Every species adapts, or it dies. This is the law that governs the natural world, and it is also the law that governs the moral world, though the mechanism is slower and the consequences are harder to measure. Beauregard Beaumont the Fourth was a species of one, the last surviving member of a lineage that had once dominated the landscape of Mississippi and was now reduced to a single specimen,...

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2026-06-02 03:41:40 -

The Star Beacon of Montparnasse
The Star-Beacon of Montparnasse**Part I: The Awakening (起势)**The letter arrived on a morning when Paris smelled of rain and roasting chestnuts. Claire Chenet unfolded it at the corner table of Le Select, her coffee going cold while she read the words that would change everything—not with a bang, but with a whisper across the stars.From the League of Nations Technical Division. Paris. 1924.They...

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2026-06-06 03:43:41 -

What the Court Transcripts Did Not Record
The official record of United States v. Malcolm Stern runs to 4,817 pages. It contains the opening statements, the testimony of forty-seven witnesses, the closing arguments, the jury instructions, and the verdict. It is a meticulous document, prepared by a team of court reporters who have been trained to record every word spoken in the courtroom with perfect fidelity. Nothing is missing from...

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2026-06-05 14:36:12 -

ACT I: THE PROPHECY
The first thing Alistair saw was his own death. It happened on a Tuesday in November, the sort of damp London evening that seeps through wool and settles into bone. He stood in his brother's study at Blackwood Manor, a room that had been locked for three years, staring at an object he could not explain. The mirror was not large -- perhaps three feet across, framed in tarnished silver wrought...

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2026-05-31 04:44:26 -

The Shepherd's Equation
The plague took my family in the summer of 1348. By the time it reached our village in Yorkshire, the dead were being buried in mass graves and the living were too sick or too afraid to help. My parents died on the same day. My younger sister, Margaret, died the day after. I was fourteen years old, and I survived because I was out on the moor, watching the sheep, and the plague does not follow...

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2026-05-30 05:21:50 -

THE GENESIS STAG OF PERSEUS
THE GENESIS STAG OF PERSEUS I. The ship was dying, and Genevieve was the only one who could hear it scream. She heard it in the maintenance corridor on Deck 47, a frequency so low it vibrated in her teeth rather than her ears. The colonists sleeping in their cryo-pods on Decks 12 through 89 didn't hear it. The ship's AI, Consensus, didn't register it—it was calibrated to ignore organic distress...

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2026-05-29 10:56:37 -

THE PEOPLE'S ENGINE
### Act I: The Spark James Callahan first understood what engineering meant at the age of twelve, when he was sent into the depths of the Homestead Steel Plant to unclog a jammed conveyor belt that had brought the entire rolling mill to a halt. The foreman had given him a choice: crawl through the gap between two moving rollers, or watch his father lose a week's wages for the downtime. James...

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2026-05-24 04:49:30 -

THE PATIENT FROM BELOW
Dr. Arthur Voss could not remember how he had arrived at the hospital. This was not, strictly speaking, true. He remembered driving through Vienna on a February evening in 1896, the gas lamps casting amber pools on the wet cobblestones, the carriages bouncing over puddles that reflected the windows of the cafés where men sat drinking brandy and talking about the future of the Balkans. He...

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