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  • The Life-Quota Algorithm
    (Act I: The Ascent) The skyscrapers of Manhattan were not just offices; they were the vertical boundaries of a new caste system. Adrian, a junior analyst at the Sovereign Fund, spent his days staring at the "Life-Quota" dashboard. In this world, biological time was the only true currency, and the Sovereign Fund managed the global distribution. Adrian was a rising star, a man who could find a...
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  • The Great Erasure
    The Observatory sat at the very edge of the Event Horizon, a needle of obsidian floating in the silence of the Great Void. Outside the windows, the stars were not points of light, but long, screaming streaks of white, being pulled into the maw of the final singularity. I am the Last Observer. My only job is to record the final seconds of the universe. For eons, I had watched the galaxies...
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  • 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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  • The People's Physician
    The bus from Chicago to Harlem rattled over cobblestones that had not been smoothed in forty years, and Dr. Marcus Hayes held his medical bag on his lap and watched the city pass by the window — brick buildings painted in colors that had once been bright, children running barefoot in the streets, a church on every corner, and jazz coming from somewhere, always somewhere, spilling out of doors...
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  • Neon Shadows
    Los Angeles was a city of electric lies. Under the relentless glare of the neon signs, the truth was something that only existed in the shadows, and in the shadows, everything had a price. Victor Thorne had spent forty years building a kingdom of silence. As a retired titan of the city's underground trade, he knew where every body was buried and which judges were on his payroll. He lived in a...
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  • The Observer at Omaha
    I first met General Marcus Hale on a Tuesday in March, 1946, at the Omaha military installation where I was assigned as his new aide-de-camp. I was twenty-four, fresh out of the Army Intelligence division, and I carried myself with the particular brand of nervous competence that comes from knowing you've been chosen for a job that's one size too big. Marcus Hale stood six feet two in his boots...
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  • The Light of Collective Dawn
    Patrick O'Brien was nineteen when he found the books, and he was already tired of being tired in a way that had nothing to do with sleep. Brooklyn in 1923 was a city of cities — or at least it felt like that to Pat, walking home from the docks after a ten-hour shift carrying crates that weighed more than he did. The apartment on Willow Street smelled of boiled cabbage and his mother's lavender...
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  • The Velvet Shadow
    (Paranormal Romance Variation) Clara lived in a house that breathed. It was an old Victorian estate on the edge of a cliff in Cornwall, where the wind howled like a wounded animal and the sea crashed against the rocks with a rhythmic, violent hunger. Clara was a restoration artist, spending her days breathing life back into faded canvases, but her nights were spent in the company of a ghost....
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  • The Rust Belt
    The factory had been closed for ten years. The sign in front said SOUDER STEEL WORKS in letters that had once been blue but were now the colour of dried blood. The windows were all broken, and weeds grew through the cracks in the concrete parking lot like the earth was trying to reclaim what the steel had taken. Ray Kowalski sat in his truck outside the gate and watched a crow pick at something...
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  • Blood and Magnolias
    The Spanish moss hanging from the live oaks along Cypress Lane did not sway so much as it hung, like laundry left to dry on a line that had not been pulled in thirty years. Bell Thorne stood on the porch of the house that had been her family's for four generations and watched the rain fall in sheets that turned the dirt road into a river, and she thought about how water, left long enough, could...
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  • The House on Blackwater Bayou
    The house sat on the edge of Blackwater Bayou like a woman who had inherited a fortune she did not want and could not refuse. It was large -- not mansion-large, but plantation-large, the kind of size that implied generations of people living under the same roof, eating at the same table, sharing the same secrets. The cypress trees surrounded it the way guards surround a king who has stopped...
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  • Whispers in the Fog
    Vera Cross had been drinking since four in the afternoon. It was only six o'clock, but the gin bottle in her coat pocket felt like the only honest thing in a London that had forgotten how to be honest. Her husband had died under her care in a field hospital near Ypres, and she had held his hand while he bled out and told herself it was mercy. Three months later, she was back in London, assigned...
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