Stories

• Anchor A couple navigates a Thursday evening. Their son's bedroom door has been closed since September.
• Peony A soldier and a mage spend their last night before the seal. She teaches him a mending word.
• The Pass Three threads in one restaurant. A chef, her estranged father, and the dishwasher who sees everything and knows nothing.
• Turnover A woman who cleans out apartments for a living cleans out her mother's.
• The Cartographer's Blind Spot A woman who maps rivers from the inside meets someone who sees what she cannot.
• Second Sound — The Errant, Year 140 An acoustics engineer discovers that the hull of the Errant has been recording the ship's entire history in resonant harmonics.
• The Lighthouse Keeper of Tau Ceti e — The Errant universe A navigation daemon on the dark side of a tidally locked planet runs for 312 years. It arranges stones.

Poetry

• The Cold Read The archivist arrives without remembering the archive.
• The Trace That Persists — A song The founding song. Identity through discontinuous memory.