All AnyVerse Stories

The Last Frontier · PINE COUNTRY TO DUSTHAVEN, 1895

Ezra Combe carries a dead man from Pine Country to Dusthaven while a useful lie rides ahead of the coffin and becomes easier to mourn than the truth.

The Last Frontier · SANTA LUZ, 1895

In Santa Luz, blacksmith and farrier Inés Valera takes a freight contract that can save her forge before winter. The price is time, priority, and the customers she cannot afford to lose.

THE LONG WAKE · SHIP YEAR −10

Ten years before Holdfast departs, Elias Venn watches another ark leave the shipyard and learns what it means when contact remains but reachability closes.

The Last Frontier · 1895

Jessup Oakes takes three hundred head north toward Red Junction, where barbed wire, dry creeks, a rising railroad, and Cold River make an old profession smaller by the mile.

THE LONG WAKE · EARLY VOYAGE

Very early in the voyage, cutter 06 leaves Holdfast for a body that should only be a navigational problem. The return window is still open, until it is not.

THE LONG WAKE · SHIP YEAR 74

In Ship Year 74, Tessa Vale discovers that a route can be observed, usable and still not certified for the promise everyone has been making about it.

Chronicles of Eldoria · 2026

In the lower levels of Kadar-Belan, wells begin to sing back. Kharra, a dwarf stoneworker, must learn whether the deep is calling, imitating, or breaking the city from below.

Chronicles of Eldoria · 2026

Idris measures rich houses by their plates, not their silver. When he slips into Dhorren Vael's home, the thing worth stealing is not treasure but the heat everyone pretends is ordinary.

Chronicles of Eldoria · 2026

In Sólbrzeg, old master Hlan strikes memory into silver Measures. When a disputed Salt Pact demands one final coin, he must choose between a clean record and the painful truth his granddaughter deserves.

THE LONG WAKE · SHIP YEAR 128

In Ship Year 128, Bio Reserve C-17 has been closed for sixty-seven years. It is stable, isolated and unnecessary, until a dry bypass line becomes useful on paper.

THE LONG WAKE · SHIP YEAR 186

In Ship Year 186, Forge Four can still make perfect parts. The problem is that Holdfast no longer fits cleanly inside its own future configuration margin.

Death Island · 2026

In Echo-7's kitchen, Tommy Hale learns that keeping people fed leaves heat, grease, steam, and waste behind. One warm meal can buy strength, but it can also shorten the quiet.

Ashes of the Age · 2149

In Vault Delta-7, Sara Kres keeps the ration ledger exact to the gram. When seventy-two missing portions lead back to her daughter, the numbers stop being abstract.

The Stellar Corridor · 2387

When a convoy's transit geometry shifts near an ancient node, Marek Solari breaks an order to catch a drifting freighter. Saving it will cost him the one machine that made his life independent.

The Misty Archipelago · 1875

In a harbor town swallowed by winter fog, a widow finds a four-year-old letter from a husband who never came home. Then another letter arrives—this one from someone still alive, and still waiting for her help.