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A trilogy of black marbles and human vessels

The Ordinary Impossible

Three people encounter powers that do not make them better. Behind them, an entity learns movement, speech, embodiment and finally desire.

10Black marbles mark the beginning.

The Ordinary Impossible begins with a corpse and a collection of glossy black spheres. It expands into a trilogy about power, appetite and an intelligence using human beings as a ladder towards physical existence.

Each book centres a different protagonist and a different distortion of cause, force or consequence. The entity does not create the darkness already present in them. It learns from what they choose to do with it.

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Book One

The Tenth Marble

Nine black marbles are discovered with a corpse. The tenth appears where no object should have survived. As the investigation deepens, the spheres begin turning people into carriers for something without a body.

The entity starts with small thefts—movement, timing, control—and works towards a larger architecture. Every escalation asks the same question: if something can use a body perfectly, what remains of the person inside it?

Embodiment, evidence, possession, unresolved death and intelligence without empathy.

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Book Two

A Marble of Shadows

Claire Dwyer can store force through touch and replay it later. What appears to be power is also an archive: every impact remains available, waiting inside her body.

Meanwhile, the entity advances. It steals movement, injects speech, shares senses, moves the spheres without carriers, rebuilds tissue and begins assembling a person. By the time it learns to want, the difference between imitation and life has become dangerously thin.

Stored violence, bodily autonomy, imitation, escalating intelligence and the desire to become real.

Concept cover artwork for The Ordinary Impossible Book Three
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Elliot Voss is a senior insurance loss assessor and a serial killer with eleven years of history before the impossible touches him. His power does not cause his appetite. It gives that appetite a new relationship with time.

Consequences begin arriving before causes: wounds before decisions, evidence before crimes, grief before death. Julian and Claire must confront a man who willingly completes the actions reality has already punished—and an entity whose collapse may be destruction, escape or birth.

Causal inversion, willing evil, consequence, appetite and an ending that refuses certainty.

Other books

Beyond the trilogy

Separate worlds from Markwath House, each with its own impossible rule.

The Birds Who Hold Up the Sky front cover

The Birds Who Hold Up the Sky

Standalone novel → What Remains of Us front cover

What Remains of Us

Story collection → Before Regret front cover

Before Regret

Psychological thriller →