A speculative novella about pocket worlds with altered time, it follows a displaced scientist through grief, estrangement, and the commodification of discovery. The story pairs intimate emotional stakes with a sharp critique of corporate control and the extraction of value from science.

In a world where time itself can be commodified, a broken family gets one more chance to reckon with what was lost.

A biologist exiled to the prison world of Kiln is forced to confront a dangerous ecosystem and the traces of a vanished civilization. The novel combines meticulously imagined alien life with a story of resistance against authoritarian power.

On a prison world, the real discovery is not just alien life, but the history buried beneath it.