Jacob Price

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2026-06-07 13:51:13 -

The Seventh Compromise of Jack Morani
The first compromise was small. It was a compromise about language, about the difference between the truth and what the truth sounds like when you translate it into a language that the powerful can understand without feeling threatened by it. Jack Morani was thirty nine years old in 1987, former screenwriter turned fixer, and he had been a screenwriter once, back when he believed that stories...

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2026-06-11 18:16:41 -

V1: The Velvet Counter
V1: The Velvet Counter Catherine Hayes had learned, over seven years of corporate life in Manhattan, that confidence was mostly a performance. The kind of confidence that made boardrooms lean forward, that turned salary negotiations in your favor, that made junior analysts believe you had a master plan even when you were figuring out lunch. The performance began with posture. Catherine's...

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2026-06-07 02:23:40 -

THE LAST LIGHT
The antenna was old. That was the first thing Matt Wheeler noticed when he arrived at Outpost Delta—that everything about it was old. The dish was scratched and faded. The transmitter unit was a model that had been discontinued five years ago. The cables were frayed in places and patched with electrical tape in others. It was the kind of equipment that the Army kept because replacing it would...

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2026-06-08 07:58:39 -

The offer arrived on a Thursday. Seth Cohen tore open the envelope, read the first line, and laughed.
Aletheia Holdings. Starting salary: one hundred and twenty thousand dollars per year. Benefits: comprehensive. Location: Manhattan, Midtown. Requirements: analytical thinking, discretion, willingness to participate in immersive experience program. Seth was twenty-six years old, living in a studio apartment in Astoria that smelled of neighbour's curry, and drowning in six figures of student debt...

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2026-06-02 06:24:28 -

Cold Coffee
The quiet death happened on a Tuesday. Jake Morris found out on Wednesday, when he walked to the corner store and found Mr. Tan behind the counter with his head resting on the register, his eyes open and unseeing. Jake knocked on the glass. Nothing. He reached through the broken front window and checked for a pulse. Nothing. Mr. Tan was gone. Jake went home and checked on his mom. She wasn't...

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2026-06-11 22:22:32 -

THE FALLEN PEGASUS
Edward Ashworth stood at the edge of the Yorkshire moor and watched the wind try to lift his creation from the earth. The glider—he refused to call it a machine, for it had a grace that machines lacked—trembled against its ropes like a living thing straining toward the sky. Three years of design. Three years of secret work in the old barn, funded by selling his mother's pearls one by one. Three...

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2026-06-04 09:55:58 -

Six Transmissions of a Single Fear
First Transmission: The Cafe on Friedrichstrasse The information began in a face. It was a Thursday in March of 1962, the air still carrying the damp of a winter that had refused to end, the sky over West Berlin the color of wet cement. The face belonged to a man named Dmitri Petrov, cultural attaché at the Soviet embassy on Unter den Linden, known to the British Secret Intelligence Service as...

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2026-06-03 20:15:37 -

The Ark of Dawn
The Ark of Dawn Fifth Ark floated above the wasteland like a steel continent, and Evelyn Hart stood at her window on the forty-seventh deck, watching the perpetual dust storms roll across what used to be called the Midwest. She was twenty-nine years old and responsible for designing a society. Not the technical society—the engineers handled that. Not the resource allocation—the logistics...

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2026-06-07 13:38:12 -

The Brooklyn Ladder
The Brooklyn Ladder ACT I The thing about being five-foot-six in Brooklyn is that the world is built for people who take up more space. Doorframes are seven feet tall. Countertops are thirty-six inches high. Every handshake is a negotiation about who has to reach higher. I learned early to reach. My name is Marcus Rivera, and I'm nineteen years old, which means I've spent more than half my life...

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2026-06-11 10:56:51 -

The Price of Wonder
She told herself she would only look. That was the first small compromise. The laboratory was behind a door that nobody else had opened in thirty years, and the things inside it belonged to no one, and there was no harm in looking. Clara Winters stood in the doorway of the transformed gasworks with her hands pressed against the iron frame and her breath coming in small white clouds in the cold...

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2026-06-02 16:53:00 -

The House of Hartfield
I have been working for the Hartfield family for forty years. Forty years is a long time to work for people who do not see you. I am seventy years old. I am a black man in a town where black men are supposed to be visible only when they are working or dead. I have been both. But I am still here, which means I am neither. The house was bigger than it should have been. I arrived there in the...

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2026-06-06 12:59:35 -

The Eternity Derivative
In the glass canyons of Wall Street, time had become the ultimate asset. The Aeterna Protocol was no longer a medical treatment; it was a financial instrument. Longevity was traded as "Life-Futures," complex derivatives that allowed investors to bet on the remaining lifespan of others. Marcus Thorne was the king of the launderers. He didn't just trade time; he engineered it. He created...

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