Counterseed
The hand with my lost ring keeps time like a metronome that wants my name. Two, then one. Again. The lid answers in its bones. Nails learn the rhythm and try to behave.
“Back,” Caleb says.
I don’t. The pry foot stays under the seam because my body still believes in levers. The girl—my sister o...
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Chapters
1. The Orchard Opens
2. Root Line
3. Sister Row
4. Understory
5. Red Thread
6. Key Teeth
7. Harvest Hours
8. Split Root
9. Sealed Row
10. Root Vault
11. Old Teeth
12. Pressure Ridge
13. Bellmouth
14. Choir Line
15. Hollow Name
16. Breakwater
17. Counterhour
18. Counterseed
19. Dead Reckoning
20. Underflow
21. Split the Hour
22. Answer Hour
23. Undertow
24. Sump Hymn
25. Orchard Face
26. Wellmouth
27. Metronome
28. Double Hour
29. Kill the Metre
30. Lateral Hymn
31. Floodline
32. Root Ledger
33. Redacted Harvest
34. Red Thread Depth
35. Counterroot
36. Black Orchard
37. The Witnessing
38. Orchard Reckoning
39. Ledger Fall
40. Hour's Reckoning
41. The Last Ledger
42. The Ledger's Last Witness
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