An ocean hangs above Veyra, and every ninety-nine years one city is erased from memory to keep it there. This cycle has chosen Lume—the upward harbor whose forgotten foundations may prove the sacrifice was never necessar…
At Saint Agnes Hospice, dying patients begin writing the same sentence in the same looping hand: I am sorry I could not stay. Night nurse Elise Morrow recognizes neither the handwriting nor the memory that arrives with i…
In the summer of 1937, an engineer named Tomás Arismendi arrives in Larija to survey the branch line for closure. He is methodical, solitary, and certain that the railway is a financial drain that must be terminated. His…
Two years after the Cold Storage platform fended off a legal challenge to its sovereignty, a new crew faces a quieter but more insidious threat. A sealed court order, delivered via the uplink, demands the production of a…
In the frozen Baltic port of the amber guild, a new apprentice named Sven arrives to take up the least desirable post in the guildhall: reconciling forty years of neglected assay books. The work is tedious and cold, conf…
Nell Achebe is second cover for Lady Macbeth at the decaying Gallowgate repertory, a theatre permanently three weeks from closure. She knows the role better than anyone except Delphine Marr, sixty-two, magnificent, and a…