Last Trunk

The ladder sweats cold. I count rungs so I don’t count heartbeats. A light below blinks my father’s pattern—long, long, short; pause; long, short, short—inviting, not pleading. I shut my mouth and borrow silence from my teeth.

The pit opens into a concrete cylinder. A single column rises from a...

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Chapters

1. The Hiss Between Stations

2. The Carrier’s Teeth

3. The Mouth of the Tower

4. Dead Air

5. Cut Lines

6. Hard Lock

7. Negative Space

8. The Voice That Isn’t Mine

9. Relay E

10. Burn Line

11. Root Signal

12. Line Noise

13. Threshold Tone

14. Answer Echo

15. Paper Frequency

16. The First Letter

17. The Mouth Closes

18. Dead Channel

19. The Fourth Letter

20. Proxy Breath

21. Last Trunk

22. Spiral Dial

23. Private Channel

24. Father Line

25. Hinge Tone

26. Railmouth

27. Margin Flood

28. Glass Grammar

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