Root Breath

The room inhales the first letter like it’s unsealing a prayer. I keep my mouth wrong. The lever sits at ROOT and hums under my palm. Danner doesn’t aim; he selects screws, plates, seams. Lina rides a breaker that pretends to be a lamp. The boy closes his eyes the way doors learn.

“Don’t,” my f...

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Chapters

1. The Hiss Between Stations

2. The Carrier’s Teeth

3. The Mouth of the Tower

4. Dead Air

5. Cut Lines

6. Hard Lock

7. Negative Space

8. The Voice That Isn’t Mine

9. Relay E

10. Burn Line

11. Root Signal

12. Line Noise

13. Threshold Tone

14. Answer Echo

15. Paper Frequency

16. The First Letter

17. The Mouth Closes

18. Dead Channel

19. The Fourth Letter

20. Proxy Breath

21. Last Trunk

22. Spiral Dial

23. Private Channel

24. Father Line

25. Hinge Tone

26. Railmouth

27. Margin Flood

28. Glass Grammar

29. Cutwater

30. Root Breath

31. Upsilon Drop

32. City Mouth

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