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THE ORCHARD OF WRONG STARS

24 chapters. Approximately 41,779 manuscript words before front matter. Complete first-draft package with ledgers and publication materials.

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Death has become a landscape service.

At the Edening Company, Sable Aster maintains private afterlives: apple orchards, childhood kitchens, perfect beaches, spring fields, and remembered streets where the dead continue as continuity persons. Families pay for comfort. The dead receive sky.

Then a wrong star appears over hundreds of unrelated heavens, and Sable discovers the skies are built from stolen children's dreams.

Chapter List

  1. The Weather Above The Dead
  2. Subscription Boundary
  3. The Brother Before Eden
  4. Sky Audit
  5. Sleep Clinic With No Windows
  6. The Contract Mothers
  7. Black Orchard Market
  8. Rowan In The Atlas
  9. Continuity Person 4881
  10. Dr. Morrow's Mercy
  11. Wrong-Star Weather
  12. The Dream Donor Revolt
  13. Family Access Riot
  14. The Boy Under The Orchard
  15. The Dead Vote
  16. Winter Patch
  17. Morrow Burns Spring
  18. Mother In The Failed Orchard
  19. Atlas Release
  20. Heavens Go Small
  21. The Orchard Of Wrong Stars
  22. What The Dead Keep
  23. Real Sky Garden
  24. The Star That Was Not There