Originals

Fertige Welten, die erste Szene schon geschrieben.

Jedes Original ist eine Welt, eine Besetzung und eine Eröffnung, von Hand geschrieben und lektoriert. Jede Leserin und jeder Leser bekommt eine eigene Geschichte: Was du tust, erreicht niemanden sonst.

Die Originals sind auf Englisch geschrieben.

• Borrowed Gravity

  In Lowfield everything weighs sixty per cent, and you are the one who keeps it that way. The anchor is drifting.

  warm · physical · wry · pressured · Mittel, etwa 30 Szenen

• Lanterns Under the River

  The dead have started writing back, and their answers turn up at your lantern workshop every morning.

  uncanny · luminous · uneasy · busy · Mittel, etwa 30 Szenen

• No Witnesses for Tuesday

  The town moneylender is dead behind the old pharmacy, and nobody saw a thing. Your failing paper prints on Thursday.

  lean · tense · dry · humane · Mittel, etwa 30 Szenen

• One More Season

  You promised your mother one more season in her greenhouse. Your sister has already booked the valuer.

  literary · warm · funny · exact · Mittel, etwa 30 Szenen

• Second Spring Atlas

  At fifty-eight you meet Noor, who tests day trips for a rail guide. They only count if she goes alone, and she would like your company.

  funny · romantic · gentle · frank · Mittel, etwa 30 Szenen

• Six Minutes of Glass

  The tower lift stalled and one passenger walked out of it. You write the report, and everyone who votes on your job wants it to say something else.

  claustrophobic · wry · close · uneasy · Mittel, etwa 30 Szenen

• Six Weeks' Notice

  The washhouse closes in five weeks. You are meant to save it, and your new job starts in another city.

  literary · funny · warm · attentive · Mittel, etwa 30 Szenen

• The Afterimage Market

  At your market stall people sell the seconds they paid attention to, and every listen wears them out. Your rent is due Friday.

  comic · farcical · wry · specific · Kurz, etwa 12 Szenen

• The Clockmaker's Share

  A collector pays on Friday for a famous clock’s slow, strange tick. You start it, and it ticks like a kitchen clock.

  dry · warm · exact · tense · Mittel, etwa 30 Szenen

• The Correction

  A paroled man’s copy of his court order is one sentence shorter than the court’s, and your clerk number certified it.

  procedural · patient · exact · uneasy · Mittel, etwa 30 Szenen

• The Roads We Swear

  In the Sere Marches a sworn road runs exactly where the surveyor walks it. You are the surveyor, and the road the valley wants runs through your old home.

  adventurous · warm · political · wondering · Mittel, etwa 30 Szenen

• The Water Vote

  A space station votes on who controls its water, and you keep the record. The numbers everyone is quoting are wrong.

  political · tense · grounded · Mittel, etwa 30 Szenen