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  • Marie's Signal
    Paris in 1925 smelled of jazz and rain. I arrived with nothing but a letter from Marie and a pocketful of francs that would not last the week. I was blind, yes, but blindness had never been the kind of thing that stopped me from walking forward."Where do you need to go?" the taxi driver asked, leaning out his window."Montmartre," I said. "And a room that costs less than five francs a night."He...
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  • Speakeasy Blues
    Speakeasy Blues The Long Island Sound was black that night, and the Whitmore yacht had sunk without a sound. That was what the coroner said, at least. Clara Whitmore stood on the deck of her family's Long Island summer house and watched the same black water, holding a tumbler of gin that she had not taken a sip of in twenty minutes. "Clara." Her mother's voice came from the doorway. Beatrice...
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  • ACT I
    Dr. 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...
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  • The-Astronomer-of-Cambridge
    The Signal at the End of the World I. The Discovery The fog in London had a quality that Lady Eleanor Blackwood found peculiar—thicker than weather, more deliberate than chance. It crept through the casement of her observatory with the persistence of a visitor who had forgotten the meaning of propriety. The instrument before her hummed with a sound that was neither mechanical nor biological....
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  • The Two Paths
    The Two Paths Charlie Morrison made his first million in 1929 by being the first person on the floor to understand that the market wasn't going to recover. Everyone else was still talking about bull markets and new highs. Charlie was already selling. He sold everything, took cash, and waited. When the rest of Wall Street was standing in lines for bread, Charlie was sitting in a apartment on...
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  • The Inheritance Of Oakhaven
    The Inheritance of Oakhaven Act I The road to Oakhaven did not so much end as dissolve, as though the earth itself had decided it was tired of pretending there was a destination. Caleb Reeves drove his car the last three miles on tires that had given up two seasons ago, watching the pavement fracture into dirt and the dirt soften into something that might have been a road in a previous...
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  • THE GILDED CANVAS
    Paris, 1924 — New York, 1926 Isabelle Moreau did not paint to please anyone. She painted because the colors would not stop singing to her, and if she did not answer them, they would tear her apart from the inside. Her studio in Greenwich Village was a converted attic that smelled of turpentine and damp plaster. The walls were covered from floor to ceiling with canvases—abstract compositions of...
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  • The Pawn's Game
    The skyline of Manhattan was a jagged graph of ambition and greed, a forest of glass and steel where the only thing that mattered was the speed of the trade. Julian was a junior analyst at a firm that specialized in "distressed assets," which was a polite way of saying they bought companies just before they collapsed and stripped them for parts. He was a man of spreadsheets and sleepless...
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  • The Absurdity of Flesh
    In the heart of Soho, where the galleries are white and the champagne is cold, lived an artist named Marcus. Marcus didn't paint; he didn't sculpt. He practiced "Ontological Displacement." His latest exhibit was titled *The Return to the Root*. The center-piece of the exhibit was a woman named Clara. She lived in a glass enclosure filled with sand and raw oats. She didn't wear clothes; she wore...
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  • The Obsidian Curse
    Arthur died on a Thursday, which Sebastian would later consider significant, though he could not say why Thursdays should matter more than other days. The official story was a hunting accident—a stray bullet, a fall from the horse, a tragic collision with an oak branch at the wrong moment. Sebastian accepted it because there was no alternative, and because accepting it was what a brother would...
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  • The Fortune Teller of Fifth Avenue
    ACT ONE: THE CALL Nicholas Callahan arrived in New York with forty dollars in his pocket and a conviction that the world owed him something he had not yet collected. He was twenty-four, from Canton, Ohio, and possessed the particular brand of confidence that comes from being smart enough to see every opportunity and lazy enough to never pursue any of them honestly. He had tried journalism,...
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  • What She Saw
    What She Saw The lunch box was Tupperware, the kind with the red locking clips. Clara had packed it carefully: three dumplings arranged in a triangle, a small container of soy sauce, a paper napkin folded into a square. Sophie watched her do it from behind the register, pretending to count receipts. "Again?" Sophie said. Clara looked up. Her face was round and warm, her dark hair pulled back in...
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