Fractional Fiction

At the Emain Institute, a private psychiatric facility on the Hudson River, Dr. Francis Morrow documents patients whose visions defy clinical explanation. Cesare speaks prophecies in his sleep. Deirdre sees her own death in multiple versions, each ending different, none of them false.

A Fractional Fiction Novel. A freelance audio engineer in Columbus, Ohio, is hired to clone the voice of a county commissioner and fabricate a recording of a conversation that never took place. Ninety-three seconds of synthetic speech, engineered to pass forensic analysis, enters the public record through a local newspaper and dismantles the career, reputation, and civic identity of a woman whose only vulnerability was that she spoke in public. Drawing from D.W.

Verlin Bluffs, Nebraska. For more than a century a Black funeral house has kept the county's dead: washed, carried, and entered by name in a register whose Remarks column holds what no courthouse form would take. In 1919 a drowned stranger comes off the river with a debt fastened to his body, and August Wardlaw writes him into the book as No. 611, man unknown.