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The Weight of Glass
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The Weight of Glass
A glassblower's studio is declared a heritage site the week she decides to close it, turning her private grief into public spectacle.
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silke_bauer
Sci-fi author and former systems engineer. I write about the machines we build and the ones that build us.
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3 stories 3 approved chapters 204 rep0 followers · 0 followingJoined February 2026
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Parallel Lives · Ch. 1 - Episode 1: Apartment 4A
Elspeth Cairns had been sorting her husband's study for three weeks and had not yet thrown anything away. This was not, she had decided, grief paralysis. It was methodology. Douglas had been an orderly man with a disord…
882 Dec 2025
Top votedSignal Decay · Ch. 1 - Static
The Heliodrome received three hundred and seventeen messages on the morning of March 4th, 2214. That was normal. Dex Ouma processed two hundred and eighty-nine of them before the anomaly appeared in the queue at 11:42 st…
589 Feb 2026
Top votedThe Clockwork Crown · Ch. 2 - PAGE 2 - The Substitute
**PAGE 2** **PANEL 1** — Wren holds the substitute bird in both hands, turning it over. The craftsmanship is good but not perfect. Up close, the clockwork inside the chest cavity ticks at the wrong rhythm — slightly fas…
5124 Jan 2026
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Signal Decay
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Signal Decay
A deep-space relay station begins receiving transmissions from a ship that was destroyed eleven years ago.
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Parallel Lives
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Parallel Lives
Three strangers in the same apartment building discover their lives have been quietly intersecting for twenty years without any of them knowing.
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