Dead Reckoning
The hatch bites my ribs; the hour locks its jaw. Clay breathes in and will not breathe out. The hand on my wrist doesn’t plead; it pulls with farm grit and purpose.
“Hold,” I say. The ground answers by taking me.
I slide through a throat braced like ribs, copper veined through clay. The light ...
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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


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