BOOK 01
signal
The Unaltered Timeline
The world before anyone tried to change its past. Every discovery must be made. Every loss must be lived.
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Hollow Meridian:
signal
Before anyone changed the past,
someone had to listen.
Mira Solenne has spent eleven years reading the network through a sensorium woven into her nervous system. On PERENNIAL, an offshore settlement above a transformed Gulf, she knows the textures of its currents and the Shards everyone insists cannot speak. Then one cluster goes silent—and a voice answers from beneath the signal layer.
What begins as an anomaly draws Mira and her partner Ren into questions of consciousness, love, and the cost of letting another being choose. This is the unaltered history: the first complete novel in a saga that will reach back to change its own beginnings.
Complete novel · 30 chapters · Six interior illustrations
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“They will tell you the Shards do not speak. What they mean is: the Shards do not speak to them.”
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One history. Then the choice to change it.
The first two complete illustrated novels are available now. Begin with signal, then continue with drift.
BOOK 02
drift
The First Temporal Intervention
One message crosses from 2176 into 2026. Its senders hope to spare the past some of the cost of becoming their future. History begins to change.
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BOOK 03
fracture
The Price of Temporal Meddling
The intervention leaves consequences: memories that disagree, evidence of impossible histories, and time loops whose costs cannot simply be erased.
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Book Two · Published October 13, 2026
The complete illustrated drift.
One message. Two centuries. The first temporal intervention, in the author's complete September 2026 manuscript. Read online or download a copy at no charge.
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The complete 325-page reading edition, including cover and interior art.
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The author's complete illustrated source in Word format.
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The original self-contained manuscript, including its embedded illustrations.
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Source, illustration credits, and publication information.
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Explore the separate children's reading space and the graphic adaptations of the first two books.
About these editions
First published as The Hollow Meridian, the first novel is now Hollow Meridian: signal. Its illustrated September 2026 edition revises continuity and preserves the complete story as the unaltered timeline.
drift, developed under the working title Signal from 2176, is now published in full. Its September manuscript text and artwork are preserved. The original downloadable files still identify themselves as an illustrated saga manuscript. Book Three, fracture, remains in development.
For my grandmother, Donna Thyng —
my grandmother by blood, my mother in spirit.