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War

THE CITATION

A West Point cadet idolizes his father, a Medal of Honor recipient from Fallujah. Then a dying veteran contacts him and says the ambush happened, but the hero did not. His father's medal is covering a cover up.

118 pages

Science Fiction

COLD SIGNAL

Dr. Aisha Webb, eight years removed from the deep space program, is called back when a probe she helped design begins transmitting an anomalous signal from twenty-two light-years away. The signal contains the voiceprint of her former colleague, Dr. Priya Yun, who died in 2037. Working alongside junior engineer Jun Matsui, she decodes the signal and discovers a scientific correction to an error she made in 2033. At the bottom of the correction, a personal note: Priya was telling her she was wrong, and that she was forgiven.

110 pages

Fantasy

THORNWOOD

Vera Cole, a professional surveyor with fifteen years of experience, is hired to complete the Thornwood survey, an attempt that has failed four times. On Day 2, her measurements do not match the terrain. Over ten days, she documents a forest that is internally consistent but inconsistent with itself across time, moving at a measured rate. At the midpoint, she discovers Ruth Calloway living in the forest interior by choice, healthy and deliberate. In the final act, Vera must decide whether to complete a map that will open the Thornwood to development, or make a different kind of map entirely.

125 pages

Comedy

OPEN BAR

Maya Chen has planned 47 flawless weddings. The 48th goes viral when the groom's cake collapses onto the officiant and the hashtag WeddingDisasterPro trends for seventy-two hours. Her firm fires her within the week. With savings running out and her reputation in ruins, Maya takes the only job her battered roster can land: a referral from a desperate bride in Seattle. The catch arrives when she reads the groom's name. Daniel Park. Her college boyfriend. The man she left, or who left her, depending on whose version you believe. Maya drives to the first consultation planning to keep her head down and her sunglasses on. The fiancee, Sophie Beaumont (31), greets her at the door and immediately says: I know who you are. I Googled you before I called. You are still the best. Sophie does not appear to consider this a problem. Daniel does not recognize Maya until the second morning when he spills his entire coffee. The next four weeks produce: a venue that double-booked them with a corporate conference, a mother-of-the-bride named Vivienne Beaumont who treats the wedding as a diplomatic summit, a florist who only communicates through interpretive arrangement, and the slow dawning realization that Maya finds Sophie far more interesting than she finds Daniel. The film is a comedy about competence, old stories, and the particular courage required to want something new. Nobody makes a speech. The ending earns its warmth without sentimentality.

95 pages

Family

DEEP SKY

Marco Reyes, fourteen, arrives at his grandparents' Torrance County property in June carrying a failed physics test whose red X marks a correct answer. With his grandfather Ernesto, a retired Sandia antenna engineer navigating early Parkinson's, he salvages and constructs a working hydrogen-line radio telescope over the summer. When the dish detects a faint, repeating signal at the predicted sky position, Marco and Ernesto pursue its identification through academic correspondence and GPS-disciplined timing analysis. A July monsoon destroys the primary mount. Marco rebuilds alone. By August, the source is identified as a binary millisecond pulsar matching Marco's original prediction. In the closing scene, the two of them sit in folding chairs facing the dish in the dark, and Marco describes what is there to a grandfather who can no longer see it clearly enough to read the sky himself.

102 pages

Historical

A DEBT OF TONGUES

Hannah Kroner, 32, a German Jewish émigré, arrives at the Palace of Justice in November 1945 as a U.S. War Department interpreter. The defendant assigned to her booth is Klaus Vogler, the SS administrator who forged exit visas for her family in 1942 and later processed transport lists for Auschwitz. The court convicts Klaus and sentences him to fifteen years. Hannah translates the verdict in her own voice, returns to the empty booth after the trial closes, and folds her headphones. A single tear hits the transcript.

108 pages

Horror

EMPTY FILE

Nola Vane, a forensic archivist hired to process the estate of deceased psychiatrist Dr. Eleanor Marsh, begins recognizing phrases she uses, childhood memories she believes are hers, and her own recurring dream in the patient files. Marsh treated Nola as a nine-year-old child. Nola has no memory of this. The files have been arranged in the exact order Nola would have arranged them. The last file has her name on it. It is almost empty. One sentence. In Marsh's handwriting. Written two years before Marsh died. Waiting.

106 pages

Drama

EVERY MILE

Twelve people vanished from the same Texas rest stop over twelve years. Her daughter is the thirteenth. Linda is about to discover she was the first, and she is the only person alive who remembers why.

112 pages

Western

BONE COUNTRY

When WEI LIANG kills a brutal foreman in self-defense after witnessing a co-worker murdered on the Central Pacific grade, he flees into the Humboldt Sink with a bounty on his head. RUTH CALLOWAY, a half-Paiute tracker hired to bring him in, reads the desert for six days and finds a story the railroad cannot afford to have told.

100 pages

Drama

UNBECOMING

A Portland architect discovers a woman with her exact face living on the opposite side of the city. The double appeared the year her younger sister died. The double is carrying the grief she has refused to feel for three years.

132 pages

Thriller

SOMNAMBULA

Laura's husband installed the cameras to prove she was sleepwalking. On the tape, she sees him get out of bed, put on a wig, leave the house, come back, and say the exact sentence she has been waking up to every morning.

107 pages

Romance

LAST LIGHT IN JUNE

Dr. Mara Okafor is six days into a six-week survey expedition off Cape Breton when she finds a Norwegian research contract in her colleague James Calloway's jacket pocket. He has accepted a position at Bergen. What follows is extraordinary professional work, an underwater dive that changes everything, and on the last night, the thing they have both refused to say for eight years.

108 pages

Adventure

UPLAND

NORA ENFIELD (18) has been on her father volunteer trail crew since she was twelve. TOM ENFIELD (48) is a high school biology teacher who has run the North Cascades trail crew for eleven years. On the traverse, weather arrives early and Tom falls. Nora sets the anchor correctly. The anchor holds. She says: That is not the same as being gone.

110 pages

Sports

THE WEIGHT CLASS

Denny Voss is the best amateur boxer in three Kentucky counties, training at the gym his father Ray built before going to prison for assault. When promoter Carl Pitts offers Denny a management contract and a path to the state title, Denny signs it in the prison visitation room while Ray watches without saying a word. As Denny wins four straight fights under Carl's management, he finds a VHS tape of Ray's career-ending loss from 2003, and the tape shows what a thrown fight looks like to someone who knows what to look for. Carl tells Denny his version first: Ray threw the fight to get out of their contract. Ray tells Denny the actual version: Carl coerced him. Both accounts fit the same facts. Denny walks into the state title fight six days later without knowing which version is true, and fights as if the outcome is entirely his.

110 pages

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