Discover Manuscripts
Explore original fiction, serials, essays, poetry, and memoirs curated by readers and editors.
The Cold Perimeter
Stationed at an decommissioned radar observatory along the 64th parallel, archivist David Miller discovers that intercepted signals from thirty years ago are matching today’s satellite positions with mathematical perfection.
The Cartographer of Lost Ships
Following the trail of 19th-century naval surveyor Robert MacIntyre, who deliberately drew nonexistent shoals on nautical charts to prevent whaling vessels from entering sacred Hebridean sanctuaries.
A Winter in Kyoto
A suite of twelve quiet essays examining the geometry of night trains, temple eaves in heavy snowfall, and the peculiar dignity of eating alone in twenty-four-hour ramen stalls along the Kamo River.
The Long Apprenticeship
Seven years spent in a small letterpress workshop in the backstreets of Leith, learning the physical weight of lead type, the behavior of Dutch inks, and the disappearing discipline of setting words by hand.
The Bureaucracy of Miracles
In an unnamed Central European capital, civil servants in Sub-Ministry 4 are tasked with cataloging events that violate Newtonian physics—not to investigate them, but to ensure they comply with local municipal tax codes.
The Redacted Script
Set in occupied Vienna in 1948, a film censor is tasked with determining why five identical reels of film were smuggled out of the Soviet sector with every face cut out with an exacto blade.
Notes on Subarctic Light
A sequence of forty-eight minimalist poems tracking the sixty days of polar night in Tromsø, where light ceases to be an illumination and becomes a memory held inside granite.
The Starlight Clockmaker
High in the bell tower of the Northern Observatory lives Tobias, who winds the clock that makes the constellations turn so the polar bears know when it is time to sleep.