Justin Collins

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2026-05-30 10:08:56 -

The Ossuary of Secrets
The air in the Louisiana bayou does not move; it stagnates, thick with the scent of rotting cypress and ancient, undisturbed mud. Silas Vance had woken up in the year 1880 in a manor that felt less like a home and more like a tomb. He was a man of the twenty-first century, a forensic pathologist who had spent his life decoding the language of the dead, only to find himself trapped in a place...

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2026-05-30 00:23:12 -

THE PHOTOGRAPHER AT GROUND ZERO
ACT I: THE SHUTTER (20%) The photograph appeared on page three of The Metropolitan Ledger, beneath the headlines about stock prices and the theatre season. It showed a soldier—Tommy couldn't tell you which side, and neither could anyone else—kneeling in the ruins of a building, holding a child. The child might have been three years old. The child might have been five. The soldier's face was...

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2026-05-31 11:51:36 -

The Wyrm's Covenant
My father prayed at the cellar door every night. I told myself it was the war. I told myself that four years in the trenches, three years in the hospitals, and a thousand miles from the Irish county where I was born had done what the peace could not undo. Old Seamus O'Brien, who had spent his life wrestling his Minnesota wheat farm into submission, who had lost his left arm in a threshing...

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2026-05-30 17:26:45 -

The Body That Did Not Belong
Jonah Faulkner was thirteen years old when he understood that he was the antigen. The understanding came to him not as a revelation but as a physical sensation, a tightness in his chest that began on the morning of his thirteenth birthday and did not go away, so that he carried it with him through the day, through the party that his father had reluctantly organized, through the cake that his...

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2026-06-03 02:18:55 -

The Soil's Whisper
The earth remembers what men forget. Caleb Thorne learned this the hard way, as men of science usually do—through experiment, through observation, through the slow, painful accumulation of evidence that contradicts everything you thought you knew. It began with a vibration. Caleb was twenty-four, the youngest son of a Mississippi planter, and he had spent his childhood listening to the land....

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2026-06-02 04:35:29 -

THE WIDOW OF OAKHAVEN
Oakhaven Plantation, Louisiana, 1954 The house on Cypress Road looked like something that had been left behind by time—a white-columned antebellum mansion half-swallowed by Spanish moss and the kind of Southern humidity that made everything glisten with damp inevitability. The ironwork around the porch had rusted into abstract shapes that resembled vines more than the scrollwork they'd once...

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2026-05-29 14:05:58 -

The Serpent of Blackwater Bayou
The bayou does not give up its secrets. It keeps them the way the earth keeps bones—buried, silent, waiting for someone foolish enough to dig. Lavinia Duval knew this better than most. She had spent nineteen years learning the language of water and cypress and the slow dark movement of things beneath the surface. She had learned it from the Water Mother—a water python forty feet long, coiled in...

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2026-06-04 01:43:07 -

The Golden Cage of Time
## Act I: The Upload (20%) Morg did not fear death; he feared the end of his influence. As the wealthiest man in the Solar Hegemony, he had bought everything that could be bought, except for more time. When the "Digital Ascension" technology arrived, Morg was the first in line. He spent trillions to ensure his consciousness was uploaded to the lapped-luxury of the Omega Server—a virtual...

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2026-05-28 21:27:27 -

The Golden Exchange
The ticker tape never stopped talking. That was the first thing Vincent Moretti learned on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange: the machine had opinions, and they came in the form of punched paper ribbons that fell like confetti from the ceiling of a cathedral built for a new god. He was nineteen, Irish-Italian from Hester Street, with ink on his fingers and a photographic memory that made...

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2026-05-25 01:20:51 -

The Gilded Weapon
In the New York of 2099, "Miracles" were not acts of God; they were patented products. The OmniCorp Corporation had discovered a way to synthesize "Grace"—a bio-electric resonance that could temporarily grant a human being superhuman capabilities, from instantaneous healing to cognitive acceleration. Leo was a Miracle-Carrier. He was a genetically modified anomaly, a living battery capable of...

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2026-05-25 09:17:55 -

The Martyr's Lesson
The city of Ostrava in 1952 was a grey expanse of concrete and suspicion, where the state's eyes were everywhere and the truth was whatever the Party decided it was. Professor Hauer was the most hated man at the university. He was a man of sharp edges and a tongue that cut through the carefully constructed lies of the regime. To his students, he was a tyrant—a man who graded with a cruelty that...

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2026-05-30 09:39:16 -

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## The Zenith of Ash The city of Ouroboros was a miracle of chrome and light, a floating sanctuary above a world that had become a toxic soup of sulfuric acid and ash. Inside the dome, there were no seasons, only a perfect, artificial spring. Commander Silas walked the corridors of the Central Spire, his boots clicking on the polished obsidian floors. He had spent twenty years building this...

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