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The House With No Signal

by M. Coronado

A neural-age film restorer retreats to an off-grid house to strip borrowed feelings from old footage — and loses her own carefully archived grief instead.


*The House With No Signal*

I came to the house to work. That is the first thing I want understood, before I tell you about Camila's mouth, before any of it: I came to fix a film, not to be ruined.

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