The magician completes his final trick
Haunted since childhood by an unfinished trick, Don Lowe built his world around the five of diamonds – until the card itself reappeared.
The man who walks with a hundred hungry paws
Caterpillar Flood trades tiny portraits for meat, feeding the strays who follow him through Guardian City’s alleys like a living ribbon.
Eliot Vance and the candlelight crusade for an unsung cause
Outside the Health Dept, Elliot Vance holds a vigil for an ailment no one believes in. Beside him, Marian Shaw ensures the flame – literal and not – stays alight.
Inside the kebab wars as rival families duel over precious turf
In the Trample District, the Sittens and the Peletti families settle a decades-old feud through deadly means, with customers unaware of the bloody stakes.
The elusive knot that binds, and breaks, hearts
Louise Reefe has spent decades searching for the Lover’s Turn, a legendary knot said to seal love forever – or undo it with a single slip.