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  • The Astronomer of Cambridge
    The Astronomer of Cambridge ACT I — THE SIGNAL The rain fell on Cambridge like a judgment. Dr. William Hartwell stood alone in the Royal Observatory's domed chamber, his breath fogging the cold glass of the telescope eyepiece. It was the thirty-seventh night of March, 1887, and the brass instruments of the observatory gleamed in the gaslight like the skeleton of some great mechanical beast....
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  • THE DRY STATIC
    ACT I: THE BOOT (20%) The boot was a left foot. Size nine. Leather, cracked at the ankle, the toe scuffed from walking over things that weren't pavement. Billy found it on Day 1, in the dust in front of a building that used to be a shop. He picked it up, turned it over in his hands, put it in his pack. He didn't know why. It was just a boot. But it was a boot with a story, and Billy liked...
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  • THE DEEP LEDGER
    ACT I: THE WOMAN IN FUR (20%) The office smelled like old paper, old whiskey, and old mistakes. Frank Callahan liked it that way. It reminded him that everything in this city had a history, and most of those histories involved someone doing something they couldn't take back. The door opened without a knock. Frank looked up from his desk. The woman standing in the doorway was dressed in black...
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  • Three Versions of Frank Mallory
    Three Versions of Frank Mallory Version One Frank Mallory reported the girl immediately upon seeing her in the cargo hold and he went home and slept soundly and the next morning he reported for work at six o clock as he had done every morning for forty years and his supervisor said good morning Frank and Frank said good morning Bill and neither of them mentioned the girl because there was...
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  • The Patient from Below
    Dr. Evelyn Blackwood had been treating soldiers for fourteen months when she began to suspect that the war was happening inside their heads. The facility was a converted country estate outside New Carthage, all white corridors and padded rooms and the faint smell of carbolic and iodine. It housed the military's most difficult cases: men and women who had been brought back from the front lines...
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  • The Patient from Below
    ACT I Dr. Henry Blackwood's clinic was on Harley Street, in a building that had been a townhouse before someone with money and no taste turned it into a medical practice. The waiting room smelled of carbolic acid and lavender—two smells that had been mixed together by someone who thought they complemented each other but in fact created an odor that was worse than either alone. Blackwood sat in...
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  • The Merger of Shadows
    The boardrooms of Manhattan are the only places where the real wars are fought. There are no trenches, no gunfire, only the soft click of a fountain pen and the cold precision of a non-disclosure agreement. I was the "Fixer" for the Vanguard Group, the most powerful conglomerate in the Northern Hemisphere. My job was to ensure that Vanguard didn't just dominate the market—it owned the reality....
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  • The Patient from Below
    The asylum had been closed for twenty years before the Sleep came, but the children of Boston knew it by reputation the way children know about forbidden places: through whispers and warnings and the peculiar silence that falls over a room when someone mentions the Holloway Asylum in a voice that suggests they have been told not to speak of it at all. Theo Ashworth had never been inside. He was...
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  • THE QUIET DESPERATION
    Tom Callahan was under Mrs. Kowalski's sink at 6:15 a.m., fixing a leak that smelled like cabbage and copper. The water was cold. His back hurt the way it always hurt now — a dull, constant ache that had nothing to do with any particular injury and everything to do with eleven years of working with his hands after the steel mill closed. He tightened the nut with his wrench, wiped his hands on...
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  • The Double Life of Thomas Vance
    Thomas Vance opened the bookshop at nine in the morning and he closed it at six in the evening and he did exactly the same thing every day for three years. He straightened the books. He wiped the counter. He drank tea from a cup that said World's Best Bookseller in letters that were chipped and fading. He watched the people walk past the window and he thought about nothing. This was exactly...
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  • The Parasite Self
    The rain in Los Angeles didn't wash anything away; it just moved the filth from one gutter to another. I sat in my office, the neon sign of the 'Blue Note' across the street flickering like a dying heart. I'm a private investigator, which is a fancy way of saying I get paid to look at things people want to forget. The case started with a missing person: a man named Arthur Vance. He was a...
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  • The Architect of Memory
    (Biographical Fiction Variation) The archives of the Vatican are a labyrinth of silence and dust, where the history of the world is stored in vellum and ink. Father Thomas Moreland had spent forty years in these depths, a scholar of the forgotten, a man who believed that the truth was not found in the grand narratives of the Church, but in the margins of the manuscripts. Thomas was a man of...
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