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Last Round at the Rooster
Last Round at the Rooster
A failing pub landlord agrees to host a literary festival to save his business - and accidentally books five novelists who all hate each other.
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Last Round at the Rooster
A failing pub landlord agrees to host a literary festival to save his business - and accidentally books five novelists who all hate each other.
TQ
The Quiet Algorithm
A content moderation AI designed to detect deception starts flagging its own developers' internal communications.
TW
The Weight of Glass
A glassblower's studio is declared a heritage site the week she decides to close it, turning her private grief into public spectacle.
FW
Four Walls and a Window
Four flatmates in a cramped Dublin apartment all secretly apply for the same single room in a nicer building - and all get an interview the same afternoon.
TH
The Hollow Men
In a small English village, every scarecrow has been replaced overnight with something that looks almost human.
UT
Underneath the Rot
A mycologist studying an unusual fungal bloom in rural Oregon discovers it has been growing for three hundred years - and it is learning.
AT
A Thousand Paper Cranes
CompletedTwo competitive origami artists are forced to share a studio during a residency - and a single commission that could define their careers.
SA
Salt and Starlight
Two lighthouse keepers on a remote Atlantic island begin leaving each other anonymous notes - not realising they work opposite shifts and have never met.
ES
Earth: Season Zero
When an observant data analyst discovers that world events and personal tragedies are literally being "written" by ruthless extraterrestrials for entertainment and research, he must find a way to cut humanity's strings before the current game ends in an apocalyptic season finale.
TM
The Midnight Tribunal
A disgraced judge is summoned to a remote island where the only witnesses to a murder are the victim's own journals.

When a perfectionist watchmaker’s countdown clock fails to trigger his "greatest mistake," he uncovers a conspiracy of silence that governs the entire city.
EO
Echo of the Ancients
An ethnomusicologist travelling through a post-collapse Europe discovers that folk songs from isolated communities are converging on the same melody.
CO
Children of the Red Dawn
The last surviving clan of sky-nomads must negotiate peace with the empire that drove them from their homeland - using a language both sides forgot.
BT
Borrowed Time
A hostage negotiator discovers mid-crisis that the man holding her team at gunpoint is her father, who has been dead for twelve years.
TV
The Vanishing Meridian
A private detective specialising in missing persons discovers that her last twelve cases all vanished while crossing the same grid line on a map.
TL
The Last Garden of Eden
In a world where nature exists only in licensed simulations, one botanist discovers a seed that should be extinct.
TO
The Onion Story
Onions
TC
The Clockwork Crown
A clockmaker's apprentice discovers the royal family's souls are stored inside mechanical birds - and one of them has gone missing.
SD
Signal Decay
A deep-space relay station begins receiving transmissions from a ship that was destroyed eleven years ago.
SB
Somewhere Between Stars
The crew of a generation ship, 200 years into a 400-year journey, stages a musical to remember a planet none of them have ever seen.
TI
The Inheritance
A forensic accountant discovers her deceased client left his entire estate to a charity that does not legally exist.
PL
Parallel Lives
CompletedThree strangers in the same apartment building discover their lives have been quietly intersecting for twenty years without any of them knowing.
CF
Cartographer's Folly
A mapmaker hired to chart an uncharted peninsula discovers previous expeditions did reach it - and made a collective decision to pretend they had not.
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