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The Auran Sequence

She found a heat signature at 220 AU moving at a speed that has no natural explanation. She checked it four times. She went home. She came back at 1:47 a.m.

There's a man at work who brings her coffee and knows not to fill her silences. His knee pressed against hers at dinner and she didn't move away. She would have stayed. Except her brain was still thirty-three billion kilometres out, running the numbers.

The Auran Sequence — a slow burn across the cold dark. New chapter every Friday. 18+

Earth is hungry. Mars and Luna are restless. And something large, slow, deliberate is crossing the dark from outside the system. The love st

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The Breeches Role

Kit Aldous is cast to play both halves of the tragedy — Sebastian in the first three acts, the disguised woman in the last two. They've been on these boards since they were old enough to carry a spear. They know what comes next: the new swordmaster will ask which they really are.

He doesn't.

Three weeks of nightly practice in the dark theatre, just the two of them and the blunted blades and the candles burning down. He learns their body the way a fencer learns a blade — not to own it but to know its truths. He corrects the wrist, the foot, the shoulder. He names what he sees without judgement.

"Most people want to know which you are," Tomas says. "As if it's owed to them."

"I don't want to know which you are. I know who you are. I've watched you for three weeks. That's a different thing."

Free historical romance short story — Georgian London, 1780s. Player Kit Aldous performs both Sebastian and his disguised sister at the Coro

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The Auran Sequence — Chapter 2: Pressure and Distance

A pressure failure in the test bay. Two crew down. The coupling array held — the bay sealed exactly as designed — which means the system worked, which means nobody died.

He built the best ship he knows how to build. It had a bracket in it accumulating stress for six months, invisible to inspection, until it wasn't. Both things are true and he's still working out what to do with that.

Three evenings later he calls a debrief. Not a safety review. Just eight people around a table, hearing it said aloud: from Callisto orbit, a distress signal takes forty-three minutes to reach Mars. Any rescue is weeks away. Whoever flies the Marina flies it knowing that.

That night, the MSA analyst finds him walking the corridor alone. She's been embedded in the programme since month one. She asks if he wants company.

"Both," he said. "Probably both."

A pressure line lets go in the test bay and two of his crew go down. Ezra built the MSV Marina to cross four months of dark toward Jupiter —

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The Cottage Week

Ama has been in love with her best friend for four years. Filed under "not this, not now" and "the friendship is worth more." In ordinary life the filing system works. The cottage is not ordinary life.

One week. One bed. No mutual friends, no return journeys, no reasons to leave.

On day three, Jess burns dinner because she was watching Ama read.

At two in the morning, in the dark, with the sound of the water outside: "I've been noticing things. For a while. I didn't know what to do with them, so I didn't do anything."

Two women who have been closest friends for six years spend a week at a mutual friend's cottage. One has been in love for four of those year

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Blood and Moonlight

Mara came to the Carpathian chateau to study the strigoi manuscripts. Three weeks, a research fellowship, exclusive archive access.

The documentation hadn't mentioned Vasile Dracul.

He appeared at midnight, corrected her date attribution by fifty-seven years without hesitation, and spent two hours answering her questions with the certainty of someone revising a personal memory rather than a historical record.

She noted he hadn't blinked once.

"If the mythology weren't folklore," she said, "you would be a primary source."

Something shifted in his expression.

Free paranormal romance short story — vampire forbidden desire — folklore researcher Mara uncovers more than myth at a Carpathian chateau wh

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The Dragon's Tithe

A translation error in 1204 turned "diplomatic emissary" into "human sacrifice." The kingdom has been sending people to the mountain for two centuries. He's been sending them home every spring, baffled, because none of them spoke Calethian.

Treaty scholar Lira Ashvane volunteers herself as the mountain kingdomâ€™s annual tribute, convinced the dragon has been misunderstood for t

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Orbital Mechanics

Four years of rivalry. Five days stranded alone on a relay station. The rivalry runs out of places to hide.

Mission specialists Dr. Theo Kast and Commander Rael Osei have been professional rivals for four years. Stranded alone at Relay Station Heli

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The Glass Garden

She was hired to make the Dark Queen a window. The commission was for one week. She stayed three.

Master glassblower Senna is summoned to the Court Below to craft a window for the Dark Queen. The commission is for one week. The Queen is n

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