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The Arrangement — Twelve pages, signed by both of you, renegotiable on the first of any month. Everything it does not cover is the part…
The Cartographer's Error — A survey of a river nobody has mapped. What goes into the notes becomes the official map, and every party after will…
The Casting Couch — Hollywood, 1953. Seven years, options every six months, and the parts are not a choice. Refuse one and suspension…
Derelict — Station Kepler-9 — Four days of air, a station that stopped answering, and a door that will not open from this side.
The Ferryman's Ledger — One obol a head, and the book must balance at the end of the watch. Whatever you carry for nothing comes out of your…
The Fixer's List — The Fixer keeps a list. Take a job off it, pick your place on the crew, and find out what she is not telling you.
Hollowbeck — The village has rules. Nobody will say what they are; each one is learned the same way: by having already broken it.
The Lease — Rented Hours — Hours are sold. Someone else wears the body through them; waking means the bill paid, a gap in memory, and whatever…
The Lighthouse Inquiry — A keeper is dead at the foot of his own tower. Four people were on the point that night, and all of them are lying…
The New Guy's Lucky Summer — Fourteen weeks at a lakeside resort, and the rota decides who shares them. Guests turn over every Saturday. The staff…
Nightingale Ward — No. 14 CCS — A convoy of a hundred and forty arrives at two in the morning. There is one table, four hours of ether, and the order…
Ninety Days — Antarctic winter-over. Nothing out there wants anything from you. The station simply comes apart at its own pace, the…
Room Service, Floor 12 — A hotel, 1977, eleven at night to seven. The order ticket is everything you know before you knock: two coffees at three…
The Searcher — The village sealed itself. Someone took the shilling to go into the houses and say who is sick. Every name given gets a…
Signal Garden — A listening post, present day. A candidate that is not re-observed before its window shuts is gone for good, and…
The Small Hours — WBLR 1210 — Overnight call-in on a station that is being sold. Four hours, one phone line, and whoever is still awake out there.
Personal Trainer — Twenty-eight bookable hours a week, and clients who renew or don't. An hour with one person, a closed door on the gym…
The Understudy — West End, 1926. Covering three parts and playing none of them. Readiness fades if it is not kept up; the call comes…

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