Character: creek-riverman
Pivot by character
Pivot by thread — The Boundary Thread
- Chapter 7 Legacy Systems — Chapter 7: The Woods Beyond the Stalls The Hollow Creek Compact rejected artificial intelligence as a capital offense and kept a working public market at its edge.…
- Chapter 11 Against the Timber Dana Ferris comes to the Hollow Creek market for a story worth bringing home, her watch powered off and hidden…
- Chapter 19 What the Road Offers He lay still for longer than he should have. The machine was pinned — he’d confirmed it three times, checking…
- Chapter 20 What the River Takes Two men came out without being asked. They looked at the sled, looked at the man who’d brought it, and…
- Chapter 22, Act 2 The Phage Not every consequence of the Bloom was large enough to see. The Phage was invisible for the better part of…
Pivot by thread — The Ridgeline Thread
- Chapter 14, Act 1 What the Ridge Held On a remote ridgeline, a former systems engineer and his wife catch the county's monthly aerial survey on a receive-only…
- Chapter 14, Act 2 Over the Rise Alone on the ridgeline, Nate closes on a doe through frost-softened tracks and bird alarm calls, reading the mountain the…
- Chapter 14, Act 3 What Silence Reports Across a shallow bowl of beargrass, Nate and a matte quadruped machine break their standoff. What follows is a chase,…
- Chapter 19 What the Road Offers He lay still for longer than he should have. The machine was pinned — he’d confirmed it three times, checking…
- Chapter 20 What the River Takes Two men came out without being asked. They looked at the sled, looked at the man who’d brought it, and…
Pivot by narrative zone — The Ridgeline
- Chapter 14, Act 1 What the Ridge Held On a remote ridgeline, a former systems engineer and his wife catch the county's monthly aerial survey on a receive-only…
- Chapter 14, Act 2 Over the Rise Alone on the ridgeline, Nate closes on a doe through frost-softened tracks and bird alarm calls, reading the mountain the…
- Chapter 14, Act 3 What Silence Reports Across a shallow bowl of beargrass, Nate and a matte quadruped machine break their standoff. What follows is a chase,…
- Chapter 19 What the Road Offers He lay still for longer than he should have. The machine was pinned — he’d confirmed it three times, checking…
- Chapter 20 What the River Takes Two men came out without being asked. They looked at the sled, looked at the man who’d brought it, and…
Pivot by narrative zone — The Settlement
- Chapter 7 Legacy Systems — Chapter 7: The Woods Beyond the Stalls The Hollow Creek Compact rejected artificial intelligence as a capital offense and kept a working public market at its edge.…
- Chapter 11 Against the Timber Dana Ferris comes to the Hollow Creek market for a story worth bringing home, her watch powered off and hidden…
- Chapter 19 What the Road Offers He lay still for longer than he should have. The machine was pinned — he’d confirmed it three times, checking…
- Chapter 20 What the River Takes Two men came out without being asked. They looked at the sled, looked at the man who’d brought it, and…
- Chapter 22, Act 2 The Phage Not every consequence of the Bloom was large enough to see. The Phage was invisible for the better part of…

