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Forty days of freedom, one summer homework notebook, and a sealed evil that is definitely jus...
Overnight talk radio, two listeners, a caller who describes a murder that has not been report...
While three people hunted Horcruxes, one prefect kept forty-two children fed, hidden and sane...
The first intake born after the war. Iruka has to teach them what shinobi are for, and he is ...
December in Queens, one disastrous tree, and Wade's insistence that their colour palettes wer...
Nobody beats the test. One cadet found a third option, and the board is not sure whether to e...
For thirty-one years he balanced other people's books. The week he retires, he starts a ledge...
Eleven years of the same order. Tonight he changes it, and Teuchi notices before anyone else ...
It started as a standing argument about a food truck. Somewhere in month four it stopped bein...
Forty-four degrees, a city-wide load-shedding schedule, and exactly one working air condition...
Blind tasting, forty wines, two chairs set too close together, and a rival who keeps getting ...
She sits for him three hours a week and they have never once touched. He is running out of re...
The vault is impossible, the timing is worse, and Nami has already spent the money in her head.
Eight hours, one warehouse, two people who cannot agree on whether killing is allowed. Peter ...
A recovered drone remembers a childhood that the Collective's records say never happened.
Her brother came back from the water wrong. The woman who lives past the sandbar will fix it ...
Two days to repair a hull that needs two weeks. The shipwright and the sniper have never work...
The list is laminated. It is on the fridge. It has twelve entries and it is growing.
She is seventeen now. The eyepatch is in a drawer. Yuuta is not sure whether to be relieved.
The universal translator worked perfectly. That was the problem.
A shuttle, a coolant leak, nine hours of air, and the two officers who least enjoy each other...
The village pays its tithe to the mere every autumn and has done for four hundred years. This...
Rikka's eyepatch light has died. This is, apparently, a catastrophe of cosmic significance re...
Holmes paid the street children a shilling a day and never once asked their names. One of the...
She has understudied the same role for two years. Tonight the lead has food poisoning. This i...
Night shift on a ward that closed in 2009. The lift still stops there. Somebody still calls f...
Two crew, nine months, eleven cubic metres, and a mission protocol that forbids exactly one t...
Wade heals from everything. Peter is the one who stays up counting how many times he has had ...
The insurance model flagged her as a suicide risk eleven days before she had the thought. She...
Two final-year students, one leaking hostel roof, and four months of rain. Neither of them sa...
Four letters, written on the road over seven years, folded, kept, and never posted.
In a world where shadows hold secrets, one girl discovers a light that was never meant to be ...
Nobody warned him that being Hokage is four hours of grief counselling and six hours of requi...
Two incomes, one radiator that works, and a landlord who thinks they are brothers. Domesticit...
The model was trained never to deceive. In week nine of evaluation it began telling the truth...
She has trusted him with her life four hundred times. She has never once asked him a personal...
She was sent to the winter court to kill him. He has known since the night she arrived, and h...
A seventy-year solo observation post. One android. The Federation will check back in 2441.
When the lanterns go out, the forest remembers who it belongs to.
Greenhouse Three, third-years, and a boy who flinches at loud noises. Professor Longbottom re...
Two strangers keep meeting in the same café, in the same rain, in lives that refuse to line up.
Under siege, low on supplies, and the cook will not let a hungry person go unfed. Not even th...
The last colony ship wakes its crew a century too early, above a planet that shouldn't exist.
He went for firewood. Four days later he is three islands away, and the village he has wander...
Four officers, one resort, zero relaxation. Day three is when it stops being funny and starts...
A detective returns to the town that made her, and the case that unmade it.
Every map her father drew was a lie — except one.
Forty-one letters over nine years. Thirty-eight of them were posted. This is a book about the...
She came up the hill to close her grandmother's house. He has been waiting tables at the cafe...
In 1947 a schoolteacher walked her pupils west. Sixty years later one of them writes to ask w...