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The Tea Shop at the Edge of Tomorrow
The first message arrived at 7:43 PM, just as Keiko Nakamura was turning the wooden sign on her tea shop door from "Open" to "Closed...
The Weight of Dust
The dust had been falling for three days straight, fine as flour and red as dried blood, seeping through window seals and under doors despite all the towels and tape...
The Transcendence Protocol
The morning mist clung to the volcanic rocks like a shroud, and through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the Aurora Mind meditation hall, Priya Sharma watched it swirl with the deliberate attention she brought to everything these days...
The Girl Who Ordered Tacos
The girl ordered three tacos al pastor, no cilantro. That's what caught Esperanza's attention the third time—not the girl herself, though she was hard to miss with those haunted eyes that seemed to swallow half her face, but the order...
Night Shift
Marcus found her on a Tuesday. Or maybe it was Wednesday. The days ran together on night shift, one long stretch of fluorescent light and concrete floors. He'd been looking for somewhere to eat his sandwich away from the break room...
The Humming Dark
The servers sang back to Sigrún on a Tuesday night in November, when the darkness outside pressed against the data center's windows like wet black wool...