Stars of Ash
When the last sky-ferry falls, a cartographer and a disgraced pilot must cross a continent of drifting ruins—each mapped star a debt someone still intends to collect.
1.02M words · Latest: Ch. 412 — The Debt of Cartographers
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River of Lamps
In a port city where lanterns remember conversations, a librarian-turned-detective traces a serial forgery of memories—one lamp at a time.
482k words · Free full read
Clockwork Orchid
An engineer inherits a conservatory of mechanical orchids that bloom only when someone tells the truth. The city’s guilds would prefer silence.
310k words · Latest: Ch. 118 — Guild Silence
Greenwich Fog
Two siblings run a night bus through a London that accumulates fog as guilt. Passengers pay in secrets; the route lengthens when the city lies to itself.
228k words · Latest: Ch. 56 — Night Fare
Paper Thunder
Courier drones carry more than parcels: they carry drafts of laws not yet voted on. One pilot decides the future should not be overnighted without reading the fine print.
156k words · Hugo-nominated short arc inside
Salt & Signal
A marine acoustician and a rescue diver fake an engagement for a grant—then real anomalies appear on the hydrophones, singing back in Morse code.
89k words · Latest: Ch. 24 — Morse Tide
The Glass Cipher
A forensic typographer is hired when encrypted glass panes in a skyscraper begin displaying private messages from strangers’ pasts—messages that have not been typed yet.
264k words · Inkstream “Sunday Cipher” event tie-in
Bakery After Dark
When the neighborhood bakery becomes the unofficial crisis desk for night-shift nurses, the owner falls for a paramedic who only orders the one cake she refuses to sell.
118k words · Now in paperback via partner stores
Orbital Heir
The youngest heir to a lunar freight dynasty fakes their death to audit the family fleet—only to find each ship has been quietly renamed after extinct rivers on Earth.
540k words · Latest: Ch. 201 — Dry River Protocol
Moss & Mainframe
A rewilding botanist and a retired sysadmin share a duplex in a flood-prone city; their shared wall becomes a living archive of soil samples and overheating servers.
192k words · Serialized with author’s field notes
Velvet Audit
Two rival auditors are assigned to the same fashion conglomerate during merger week; spreadsheets are weapons, compliments are liabilities, and the exit interview is a love letter.
74k words · “Slow burn / fast quarter” tag
Harbor Keys
Every key washed up on Harbor Row opens a door somewhere else in the city—but only for the person who remembers the sound of the tide that night.
95k words · Community translation: ES / PT-BR
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The Lighthouse Almanac
Storm logs mix with family recipes on a North Sea island where the lighthouse beam still spells out ship names from the 1890s.
142k words · Latest: Ch. 31 — Gale Handwriting
Ember Archive
A decommissioned orbital library sells memory shards; one archivist realizes every buyer is trying to erase the same thirty seconds of footage.
268k words · Hard SF tag
Neon Shepherd's Route
After drones replace dogs on corporate ranches, a shepherd hacks flocking algorithms until the herd starts migrating toward cities no map lists.
96k words · Audio pilot episode
Winter Birch Files
A retired pathologist returns to a border town where birch trees sprout ribbons tied to cold cases that were never filed.
184k words · Latest: Ch. 44 — Ribbon Year
Brass Daughter's Almanac
In a divergent 1848, an almanac predicts revolutions by brass gear alignments—and the crown wants every copy pulped.
312k words · Full read free
Deep Season
A documentary crew films bioluminescence in a trench; the sub captain keeps diving past permit depth because the glow matches her dead sister’s EEG.
121k words · CWA longlist
Iron Pact
Mercenary companies swear on iron rings that taste blood when oaths break; the newest recruit is allergic to metal.
402k words · Content note: violence
Silk Warden
A disgraced imperial cartographer trains under a rooftop warden who maps crime by listening to silk looms at night.
224k words · Bilingual footnotes
City of Rust Mirrors
Mirrored skyscrapers reflect alternate timelines; sanitation crews scrape rust that is actually dried timelines bleeding through.
178k words · Latest: Ch. 52 — Scraper Union
The Lantern Clerk
Magical permits require stamps that only work if you tell the truth—until a clerk discovers a loophole in the definition of “intent.”
86k words · Slice-of-life arcs
Ashen Diplomat
Ash from volcanic embassies carries treaty clauses; diplomats wear masks not for plague but so rival nations cannot read their breath.
512k words · Epic polity
Tide Contract
Maritime courts convene on barges; a junior lawyer realizes the tide schedule has been altered to void a genocide settlement.
193k words · Court drama tag