
The Birds Who Hold Up the Sky
Owen Lark is losing words, time and his grip on what his family can trust.
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A disappearance, a drowning and a town that has learned to leave the wrong spaces empty. Something begins counting back whenever it is noticed.
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Three independent works by Elias H. Markwath. Retailer availability and formats vary by location.

Owen Lark is losing words, time and his grip on what his family can trust.
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Nineteen and a half surviving accounts from a future that has learned to remove suffering.
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Adrian Pell remembers murdering his wife. She is still alive.
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Four standalone stories, a novel opening, and one wrong file.
Psychological horror, dark speculative fiction and impossible systems with rules of their own.

Attention is not passive. Once it finds you, it selects.
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Ten black spheres. One body. Something learning to want.
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A family watches Owen lose pieces of himself, and begins to fear what care can become.
Book details →Start at Book One in each connected world. The series novels are forthcoming.
Small physical impossibilities, rule-bound dread and the danger of being witnessed.
Enter the cycle →Begin with The Tenth Marble. An intelligence learns through consequence.
Explore the trilogy →Begin with What Stops Remains, where matter first refuses the laws imposed upon it.
Explore the series →Begin with The Unwritten Strain: bodily memory and a hidden history.
Enter Veyrhold →Begin with Come Back Quiet. The house remembers who returned.
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