A Taxonomy of Stolen Breath


Literary Fiction
A Taxonomy of Stolen Breath
by Miss Liz
10 chapters2 reads
In a city where citizens trade memories as physical currency, a weary archivist discovers a series of illicit canisters containing the collective recollections of an extinct culture. As he attempts to decode the lost heritage, he becomes the primary target of an elite syndicate determined to delete the evidence of their darkest historical secret.
Chapters
1
The Weight of Luminescence
2,442 words
1
Entry the First: The Specimen
742 words
2
The Weight of Unspoken Birds
2,737 words
2
Entry the Second: Habitat
812 words
3
Entry the Third: The Reader
840 words
3
The Vacuum's Shadow
975 words
4
Entry the Fourth: The Count
812 words
4
Ripples on the Surface
852 words
5
Entry the Fifth: The Collector's Mark
920 words
5
The Darkness Within
694 words
6
Entry the Sixth: The Breach
905 words
6
The Shadow of a Forgotten People
568 words
7
Entry the Seventh: The Claimant
864 words
7
The Shadows Within
700 words
8
The Silent Pursuit
813 words
8
Entry the Eighth: The Hearing
895 words
9
Echoes in the Shadow
855 words
9
Entry the Ninth: The Return
919 words
10
Fractured Silence
1,257 words
10
Entry the Last: Neighbors
907 words
11
The Fade of Memory
964 words
12
Fractured Memories
1,117 words
13
Smoke and Ash
630 words
14
In the Shadow of the Crescent Moon
887 words
15
Darkness and Deception
775 words
16
The Shadows We Chase
966 words
17
The Lost Narrative
968 words
18
The Weight of Shadows
1,452 words
19
The Vault’s Threshold
1,207 words