10
Oct
Chapter Forty Six: One More Lap
The blue mark on the wall had survived every attempt to remove it.
Julian stood over his half-packed bag
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04
Oct
Chapter Forty Five: What We Carry
The new shift did not know their names.
Julian noticed this before he noticed the daylight at the end of
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26
Sep
Chapter Forty Four: What We Owe
The hospital could take the patients.
The utility could release the reserve.
Both confirmations were true.
Leena read them twice
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19
Sep
Chapter Forty Three: What Needs to be True
“Restore the power,” Julian said. “Hold the new work orders.”
The electrical lead looked from him to Farrell.
“Leave the
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12
Sep
Chapter Forty Two: Clearance
“Eight minutes to the road,” Julian said. “Eleven to get the last bus across.”
Farrell looked at the saddle, then
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07
Sep
Chapter Forty One: Critical Mass
Julian arrived after midnight wearing a sweatshirt someone had found at the airfield. It was too large across the shoulders.
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30
Aug
Chapter Forty: Yield
By five in the morning, the map on the CISA wall had stopped being a map of incidents and become
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23
Aug
Chapter Thirty Nine: Immersion
The fire crested the ridge at sundown Wednesday and did not pause for nightfall.
From the basin’s edge, Julian
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16
Aug
Chapter Thirty Eight: Retrieval
“Say the last part again,” Farrell said.
“They all failed in the same place.” Theo’s voice came cleanly through
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09
Aug
Chapter Thirty Seven: Interference
Uncle Luis shook his head the first time, shook it again the second, then went quiet beneath his Dodgers cap
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