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Borrowed Time
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Borrowed Time
A hostage negotiator discovers mid-crisis that the man holding her team at gunpoint is her father, who has been dead for twelve years.
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james_okafor
Nigerian-British novelist and screenwriter. Two published novels, one unfinished epic, and too many characters in my head.
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4 stories 4 approved chapters 589 rep0 followers · 0 followingJoined February 2026
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The Clockwork Crown · Ch. 1 - PAGE 1 - The Morning Winding
**PAGE 1** **PANEL 1** — Wide establishing shot. The Royal Aviarium of Gevere: a vaulted chamber in the palace's highest tower, all gilt and glass. Morning light floods through arched windows. Rows of clockwork birds on…
7316 Jan 2026
Top votedParallel Lives · Ch. 2 - Episode 2: Apartment 4B
The sound engineer in 4B had a rule about his recordings: he never listened back to the ones that felt like eavesdropping. TOMAS VELA had been making his podcast, *Corridor Acoustics*, for four years. The premise was si…
7115 Dec 2025
Top votedThe Midnight Tribunal · Ch. 1 - INT. FERRY TERMINAL - NIGHT
INT. FERRY TERMINAL - CAIRN ISLAND SERVICE - NIGHT A bleak waiting room. Plastic seats. Overhead fluorescents with a flicker problem nobody has fixed. JUSTICE ADAEZE OKONKWO (58, reading glasses, an economy-class coat s…
6226 Jan 2026
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The Vanishing Meridian
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The Vanishing Meridian
A private detective specialising in missing persons discovers that her last twelve cases all vanished while crossing the same grid line on a map.
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The Midnight Tribunal
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The Midnight Tribunal
A disgraced judge is summoned to a remote island where the only witnesses to a murder are the victim's own journals.
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The Clockwork Crown
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The Clockwork Crown
A clockmaker's apprentice discovers the royal family's souls are stored inside mechanical birds - and one of them has gone missing.
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