Sagapic

The Metronome

A detective's case file describes murders that have not happened yet, in his own handwriting. He has six days until the last entry, the one where he is the body.

65 chapters · western · thriller · rated mature · first 15 free

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Chapters

  1. Right On Schedule
  2. Two Minutes Early
  3. The Winding Hand
  4. The Sleeping Draft
  5. The Day You Die
  6. Whichever Son Has The Pen
  7. Ashes That Keep Writing
  8. Two Cots, One Name
  9. The Man Who Reads Rooms
  10. The Cured Woman
  11. The Copy in the Cell
  12. Elias in the Glass
  13. The Handwriting of Sleep
  14. Four Oh Four
  15. The Leaked Page
  16. The Third Cass Varro
  17. Next Of Kin
  18. The Tenant On Candle Hill
  19. Signed Out In My Own Hand
  20. Four Hours Off The City
  21. Nine Boxes Behind The Brick
  22. Written In Her Hand
  23. The Hand They Taught Her
  24. Whoever Carries Her Rank
  25. The Six-Twenty Mail
  26. The Man Who Winds Ardenbrook
  27. Cut And Hold
  28. The Number Follows The Boy
  29. The Attendance
  30. The Other Quill
  31. The Tenth Hand
  32. The Fair Copy
  33. A Name For A Name
  34. A Line May Only Be Struck
  35. Three Hundred Witnesses
  36. The Hand They Cut Into Her
  37. A Stroke Already Dry
  38. When The Water Gets Into The Baths
  39. Whoever Brings The Child
  40. The Keys Came Off Her Belt
  41. … and 25 more

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