The City Holds Its Breath
By noon the masks had moved from screens to faces. White ovals rode the sidewalks, cheap paper and elastic bands, handed out by kids who didn’t know the joke and men who did. Lana watched from a diner window as a courier stapled one to a poster for a missing dog. The mask swallowed the collie li...
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Chapters
1. The Truth Is, I’m Tired
2. The Devil Doesn’t Stare—He Smiles
3. There’s No Such Thing as Random
4. Dirt Doesn’t Stay Buried
5. Paranoia's Not Just a Feeling
6. The Message in the Blood
7. When the Mirror Crack
8. The Devil Behind Glass
9. Rabbits Don’t Scream
10. The Teeth of Silence
11. Echoes Under Skin
12. The Devil’s Canvas
13. Meat for the God
14. The Warehouse of Skin
15. The One That Got Away
16. Blood Doesn’t Lie
17. Let Me Show You Pain
18. The Bone Collector’s Message
19. When the Bones Begin to Sing
20. Saint Eustace
21. The Ones Who Watch
22. Flesh Memory
23. Where the Rot Began
24. The Girl Who Watched
25. The Dollmaker’s Shadow
26. Face to Face with the Devil
27. Grayson Street
28. The Cult Beneath the Badge
29. The Storage of Secrets
30. The Unmasking
31. The Sound of Wet Canvas
32. THE SHRINE
33. Where the Air Stops Breathing
34. The Muse.
35. The Masterpiece.
36. The Last Tightening
37. Every Gallery Has a Closing Night
38. The Patron’s Room
39. Obedience
40. The Frame Never Empties
41. The Artist Leaves the Frame
42. When the Canvas Shifts
43. The Portrait of Fear
44. TOMORROW
45. The City Holds Its Breath
46. The Knife Behind the Applause
47. The Knife
48. Frame or Fire
49. When the Frame Falls
50. Gilt and Gravity
51. Fire Teaches the Room
52. The City Writes in Light
53. The Roof and the Ring
54. The Hand and the City
55. No as a Weapon
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