The city wants me
The ladder tastes like old teeth under my palms. I climb on wrong breath, the way my father taught me to make rooms miscount me. The tower yawns, a throat of iron, and the white square at the top bleeds the first letter across the city like a signal flare. I do not look at it. I do not give it the c...
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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
29. Cutwater
30. Root Breath
31. Upsilon Drop
32. City Mouth
33. Mercy Cut
34. Lever Hymn
35. The Last Dial
36. The city wants me
37. Echo Debt
38. Live Root
39. Ledger of Roots
40. Keeper of Roots
41. Open Root
42. The Broadcast I Refused
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