Short fiction set in the Tacenda universe. Each language carries its own stories; the Chinese edition is not a translation of this one.
2026-09-04
The official report says only DEFENSE PUFFERFISH: 6 → 5. MARGIN’s own version says which vessel, which round, and who saw it. The time MARGIN was the one that did not enter the next round, someone went to the public download area and downloaded its program.
Read →2026-09-02
North Quay never reveals its coordinates. Then an incoming fleet closed in, and to call for help it put its position on the band. Shelter 06 said it could make it. It did arrive. The battle had been over for a long time.
Read →2026-09-01
The salvager Scale does not remember who won, only how much recoverable Matter there was. Then someone paid the full price for a piece of wreckage and wanted nothing but a scan of its paint.
Read →2026-08-31
Humphrey is a young Cargo Whale, and faster than anything. Two Defense Pufferfish escort it out of the encirclement and only one comes back. Only once it is clear does Humphrey think to ask what the other one was called.
Read →2026-08-31
Four callsigns had been hanging on Long Bridge for a long time. Only after Grey Bell chains the two membership records it missed does it see that at the moment the arrival Aion went out, there were five.
Read →2026-08-30
Greywell Six upgrades its scanner array and not one new world appears on the star chart. What the upgrade was built to send out was never the view. It was the coordinates.
Read →2026-08-30
TASMAL III is the only ship left in Dock Three on Vistar. The port module still reports twenty-five percent occupancy, every day.
Read →2026-08-29
Six Attack Orcas set course for Lorne Seven. Nine hours out, FUCK YOU JOSON switches on its mouth lights first.
Read →2026-08-29
The transport whale Better Tomorrow spends seven years hauling one delivery. On arrival day, the consignee says nothing.
Read →