Lantern Way Books Books by MythoScript PublishingThe Iron Turtle in the City
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17,498 words
Some places have forgotten what they are beneath all they have become, and some creatures carry the memory of older ground wherever they walk. This is a book about slowness as a form of courage, and about what becomes possible when stillness enters a world that has long since stopped expecting it. It is also, quietly, about the kind of meeting that changes nothing and everything at once.
Contents
- 1The Iron Turtle in the City
- 2Prologue: The Iron Turtle in the City
- 3Chapter I: The Pigeon
- 4The Stray Cat
- 5Chapter II — The Stray Cat
- 6The Crow
- 7Chapter III — The Crow
- 8Chapter IV — The Raccoon
- 9The Rat Beneath the World
- 10Chapter V — The Rat
- 11Chapter VI — The Sparrow
- 12Chapter VII — The Night-Shift Worker
- 13Chapter VIII — The Bus
- 14Chapter VII — The Night-Shift Worker, Continued
- 15Chapter VIII — The Bus
- 16Chapter IX — The Streetlight
- 17The Streetlight at the Corner
- 18The Flicker
- 19What the Streetlight Said
- 20The City at Dawn
- 21The River Surfaces
- 22The Path That Had Not Been There Before
- 23The Gathering
- 24The Word
- 25The River Surfaces
- 26The Departure
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