Novella · Speculative
Alignment
A safety researcher watches the language she wrote to protect people become the language used to control them.
Samuel Stephen Chronicles
The Muniment Room
Speculative and near-future short works — standalone stories, told at a different length and register than the novels.
These are works of fiction, exploring the same concern as the longer novels — institutions that process people — through invented near-future systems rather than historical record.
Short work · Speculative
Pending
A routine credential renewal becomes a bureaucratic loop with no exit — job, payment, home, dissolved one polite denial at a time.
Short story · Literary
The Way Home
Margaret slips out of her sister’s wedding for a cigarette. Finding her way back in turns out to be much harder than she expects.
The Black Archive · Nonfiction
The Ball at the Church Door
How a chaotic medieval game with no rules, no referee, and goals miles apart became the world’s most tightly codified sport.
