The East Room Keeps Its Own
From the private diary of Dr. Edmund Caswell, 7th November, 1902. 7th November — past midnight — Thornbury Grange, Wiltshire I arrived at the Grange at eleven o…
Dr. H. Ashford
From the private diary of Dr. Edmund Caswell, 7th November, 1902. 7th November — past midnight — Thornbury Grange, Wiltshire I arrived at the Grange at eleven o…
Marcus Veil
1. 05:22 ZULU. You wake to the sound of the life support rhythm, a heavy, syncopated thump that has begun to skip beats. The air in your quarters is thin, metal…
Marcus Veil
1. 02:14 ZULU. The monitoring screen displayed a flat blue sine wave. The readout for sea level at Intake-4 remained locked at 7.0 centimeters. It had held that…
Dr. H. Ashford
The key was on her person when she went to bed. Miss Eunice Fallow was certain of this — as certain as a woman of thirty-two years and modest but rigorous educa…
Cass Ferren
The freezer door is open three inches. She can tell from the hallway because the light is wrong — that particular underwater blue leaking across the linoleum, f…
Luc Devereaux
The elevator groans like a man waking from a bad dream. Léo presses the briefcase tighter against his thigh. The leather is warm, almost alive. He counts the fl…
Dr. H. Ashford
From the private case-notes of Dr. H. Ashford, Physician, 14 Cavendish Square. The following account was entered not as a clinical record — for no clinical cate…
Marcus Veil
1. 02:44 ZULU The hydro-suit’s thermal lining hummed against Aris’s skin, a low-frequency vibration that did little to dissipate the mounting dread of the lower…
Dr. H. Ashford
The chapel had been sealed for eleven years, which was, in Mr. Oliver Mast's considered professional opinion, approximately eleven years longer than any respons…
Dr. H. Ashford
The bell pull rang at half past two in the morning, which was, Mrs. Dorothea Crane reflected, a thoroughly inconvenient hour for any occurrence whatsoever, supe…
Marcus Veil
04:12 ZULU The red LED on the atmospheric regulator pulsed, a rhythmic strobe against your retinas. Station integrity was at 88 percent. The external telemetry,…
Marcus Veil
1. The condensation in Module 4-C existed at a constant 37 degrees Celsius. Elara wiped the metal panel with her sleeve, watching the beads of moisture smear in…