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• Hold Music

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  Overnight phones at Relay Center 4 — and a call that stays connected after the wrap screen says it's dead.

  contemporary quiet thrillerNewShort read

  ~43–44 pages · 5 chapters · 3 endings · 3,072 paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: mug, hold track

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• Lights Out

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  An ice storm, a dead generator, four patients in the dark. And notes that keep appearing in your own handwriting.

  psychological thrillerNewBook 4 of 5Short read

  ~44–45 pages · 5 chapters · 3 endings · 3,072 paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: shift drink, break read, station name

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• The Listening Post

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  A concrete station on a fog-bound cliff, wires that carry other people's secrets, and one transmission you were never meant to catch.

  literary espionage thrillerNew

  ~112–113 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 13M paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: headphones, code name

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• The Other Husband

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  A woman insists the man asleep beside her is an impostor. Then your own night log starts saying things you never wrote.

  psychological thrillerNewBook 3 of 5Short read

  ~44–45 pages · 5 chapters · 3 endings · 3,072 paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: shift drink, break read, station name

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• The Sealed Exhibit

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  A junior clerk finds a sealed exhibit that isn't on the inventory — and three ways to decide who the seal protects.

  legal clerkship thrillerNew

  ~97–100 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 1.5B paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: courthouse, mentor, kept pen

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• The Sleeper in Room 4

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  A sleepwalker in Room 4 wakes up describing a green-tiled room that isn't on the floor plan — and your own night log says something you don't remember writing.

  psychological thrillerNewBook 1 of 5Short read

  ~40–41 pages · 5 chapters · 3 endings · 3,072 paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: shift drink, break read, station name

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• The Thirteenth of August

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  West Berlin, the last summer before the wire: a frightened archivist from the East offers a British translator eleven names, and asks for one boy in return.

  quiet Cold War espionageNew

  ~114–118 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 75M paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: mission coat, cafe drink, letter name

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• The Whitlow Record

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  Demolition week. A sealed room, opened after seventy years. And the kindest person in the building has something to confess.

  psychological thrillerNewBook 5 of 5Short read

  ~45–47 pages · 5 chapters · 3 endings · 3,072 paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: shift drink, break read, station name

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• Three A.M. Voices

  Created and Curated by Ken Holm

  Every night at 3:04 a widower wakes to his late wife calling his name. The recording hears nothing. You heard it too.

  psychological thrillerNewBook 2 of 5Short read

  ~45 pages · 5 chapters · 3 endings · 3,072 paths

  How it becomes your story

  From your profile: name, pronouns, hair color, eye color, handedness

  This story asks: shift drink, break read, station name

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