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Strange & Unexplained
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Behind the Water
Approx. 26 min read
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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Show and Tell
Approx. 19 min read
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.
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Open Channel
Approx. 18 min read
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.
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The Stocktaker
Approx. 18 min read
A teenager’s forbidden inventory exposes the true cost of the supply room that has sustained an underground community for forty years.
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Proof of Life
Approx. 29 min read
A clerk who processes reincarnation debt claims opens a routine file and finds her own name listed as the deceased. What she does about it costs more than she expects.
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What Won’t Take Paint
Approx. 16 min read
Four bodies have come through Croy & Son with the same mark on them, and Dinah is the only one in Cawley who has ever gotten out a tape measure. The town has nine years left before the ground takes it.
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The Only Stranger
Approx. 16 min read
Ruthann Prosser weighs gravel trucks at a quarry outside Mitchell, Indiana, and six days ago something came back that everybody else gets to lose. The trouble isn't what she finds in there. It's what she can't find.
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Lives Here Too
Approx. 16 min read
A collision-shop estimator takes a call at work from a man who uses his full name and then says he's Kelvin. Forty years earlier, a fifth-grade classroom made Roy say out loud that Kelvin had never existed.
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Dunruan
Approx. 16 min read
A Dublin trading-estate dealer takes in a strange boy who knows things he shouldn't, and discovers that the books being balanced aren't only his own.
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The Last Call
Approx. 26 min read
A county records worker follows ringing landlines through abandoned buildings and learns that answering for a place can become a kind of custody.