Catherine Morrow

Ninety Days, Unresolvable

Here's the part he told me twice, like he still couldn't believe he'd let it hap…

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Filed Before He Came Upstairs

She told me the worst part wasn't that he'd already filed the report — it was th…

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The Steadiness Was Hers

Twelve minutes. That is how long Amira talked the helicopter down through me, in…

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Out of Order

*Out of Order* She knows it's him before he says her name, because David always…

Pour

Where Feasible

*Static Recreation, Draft Four* I didn't understand, that first afternoon, that…

Pour

Don't Call It Love

Here's the thing nobody tells you about ruining your life: it can happen on a co…

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The Override Log

She told me later that the box arrived the same way bad news always does — quiet…

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The Catch in the Hip

Let me tell you the part I shouldn't enjoy remembering: that there's no record o…

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The Ports Stay Dark

**Case 0001-A: The Rule** The rule was that we never touched the ports, and for…

An intimacy auditor and her analog engineer keep one rule for eight months. The rule is the only honest thing either of them has left.

Novella

The Keeper of Things

We have always fed the starter first, before we feed each other. I tell myself t…

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Everything I Make

I tell people I don't edit my own memories, which is true the way most of what I…

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Nothing Left Running

**The Schedule** The morning after, Theo was already at the console when she ca…

A sound engineer and the woman who built a venue around forgetting — the morning after, and the eleven days that follow.

Novella

What Grew in Vault Nine

I found the basil on a Wednesday. I'd gone into the sub-level utility corridor…

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Just Below the Chip

The cup was already hers—he'd left it on her side of the shelf three weeks ago a…

Cherry

What the Dead Arranged

The dead woman's last feeling was the color of a Tuesday afternoon, and it took…

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Row Four, Drifting