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The cold stone beneath Iris's bare feet tasted of copper and time as she knelt to touch the burned-out hearth, and wh...

The lighthouse keeper's daughter played violin like she was burning down the only thing keeping her alive, and when R...

The uranium-235 sample wasn't what I came to the bunker for, but losing it meant losing him—the only person who'd eve...

The encrypted message tastes like copper on her tongue as she reads it, but it's the tremor in her hands—calloused fr...

The salt-roughened wool of his sweater catches under her fingernails as she grabs him to steady herself on the lighth...

The puzzle piece she'd spray-painted onto the abandoned mall's fountain in 1997 was still there—and someone had just ...

Opening The man in the irradiated canyon shouldn't exist—not according to every timeline she'd memorized—and yet he's...

Lighthouse The forged signature on the deed was still wet when Iris realized the keeper's death wasn't an accident—it...

The curse breaks the moment Iris realizes she's been flying the same holding pattern for three years—circling the sam...

The message burned across her encrypted feed in dead drop code: "Sector 7. Alone. Bring the rifle." Kess killed the s...

The guitar's strings hummed with static before the dust storm arrived backwards, and Kess realized the woman humming ...

The message arrived as a coffee stain on her wrist—a dead drop encoded in the barista's shaking hands—and she realize...

The permafrost released her the moment she whispered the counter-phrase, but the defrosted operative pinning her agai...

The carbon dating results made no sense—the artifacts buried beneath my cabin were fifty years too old—until I found ...