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In Megadon, the Priests of Syrinx provide everything, and he has never once wanted more. Then a dropped crust of bread leads him behind the waterfall, to a box no one was meant to find and a sound no one has made in fifty years. He knows exactly what to do with it: give it to the priests.
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Dornhaven keeps its accounts. Elsa Brandt is an archivist. When she finds a deed referencing a contract that shouldn't exist, she does what archivists do: she keeps digging. By morning, she doesn't…
View book →In Megadon, the Priests of Syrinx provide everything, and he has never once wanted more. Then a dropped crust of bread leads him behind the waterfall, to a box no one was meant to find and a sound no one has made in fifty years. He knows exactly what to do with it: give it to the priests.
Read more →In a school built among the remains of civilization, a teacher's weekly salvage lesson uncovers an object that knows more about her past than she does.
Read more →After years alone in an Arctic seed vault, a survivor hears a welcoming community on the radio and must decide whether solitude has become her refuge or her nature.
Read more →Thallos found the rope ladder still fixed to the siege ramp when the sun was two hands above the ridge, and he did not want to climb it. At the top the wind came off the desert flat and dry, carrying nothing. That was the first thing he noticed and could not place until later, no smoke.
Read more →A teenager’s forbidden inventory exposes the true cost of the supply room that has sustained an underground community for forty years.
Read more →Strangers approach Peter Haines to confess injuries he cannot remember suffering, while records begin supporting lives he never lived. One apology finally leads him to an offense whose true direction he knows.
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