Psychological thriller
The Birds Who Hold Up the Sky
Owen Lark is losing words, time and his grip on what his family can trust.
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Thirty-Nine Left
A disappearance, a drowning and a town that has learned to leave the wrong spaces empty. Something begins counting back whenever it is noticed.
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Three independent works by Elias H. Markwath. Retailer availability and formats vary by location.
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What Remains of Us
Nineteen and a half surviving accounts from a future that has learned to remove suffering.
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The supermarket gave him twenty-three minutes back. His daughter remembers what he did with them.
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Psychological horror, dark speculative fiction and impossible systems with rules of their own.
Thirty-Nine
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Thirty-Nine Left
Attention is not passive. Once it finds you, it selects.
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The Tenth Marble
Ten black spheres. One body. Something learning to want.
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Hold Up the Sky
Elias H. Markwath
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The Birds Who Hold Up the Sky
A family watches Owen lose pieces of himself, and begins to fear what care can become.
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The Thirty-Nine Cycle
Small physical impossibilities, rule-bound dread and the danger of being witnessed.
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The Ordinary Impossible
Begin with The Tenth Marble. An intelligence learns through consequence.
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Refusal Matter
Begin with What Stops Remains, where matter first refuses the laws imposed upon it.
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Veyrhold
Begin with The Unwritten Strain: bodily memory and a hidden history.
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The Houses That Listen
Begin with Come Back Quiet. The house remembers who returned.
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