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Topic: Family
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Soft Launch
Approx. 28 min read
A library facilities worker is marked unnecessary by a quiet notification and learns which parts of a life still hold when systems and strangers stop acknowledging him.
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The Obscura Spore
Approx. 28 min read
A woman comes north to empty her dead mother's hoarder house, expecting a month of sacks and a skip. On the fourth day she reaches for the wall of newspapers that has stood in the front room since 1991 and her arm goes into it up to the wrist. What's underneath is cold, translucent, and sweating a fluid that smells of her mother's perfume and the back of a hot television. It doesn't fight when she cuts it. It takes something else instead, and she only notices what's missing when her sister mentions a summer she can no longer find.
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Hold Still
Approx. 22 min read
A countdown appears in the sky over every person on Earth, and a night-shift street sweeper in Erie keeps working his route while the world spends two months deciding what to do with the time.