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  • Episode 010: The Dog That Waited

    Episode 010: The Dog That Waited
    2026/03/13
    Behind a locked door in South Hobart, a German Shepherd has been standing guard for three days. His water bowl is dry. His food bowl has been licked to a shine. Nobody has spoken to him, touched him, or opened the door since the morning his handler walked out and didn't come back. He's still at his post. That's the moment.
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    13 分
  • Episode 009: The Price of Normal

    Episode 009: The Price of Normal
    2026/03/13
    How much does normal cost? If you're Kate Gibbons — forty-one, single mother, Glenorchy, Tasmania — the answer is approximately twenty-three dollars. That's what her nineteen-year-old son Joel spends on a Woolworths bag of chicken schnitzel, sea salt chips, fresh broccoli, and a tub of vanilla ice cream on a Tuesday evening when neither of them can afford it and both of them need it more than they can say. Twenty-three dollars. In a household where the electricity bill is overdue and the credit card is at its limit and thirty-seven dollars is supposed to stretch across seven days of meals. Twenty-three dollars that Joel doesn't have, spent on food they don't buy, prepared in a kitchen neither of them can comfortably enter since this morning, when a government document with a name Kate had hidden for nineteen years landed between them and detonated. That's the moment. Not the revelation. Not the lie. The meal that follows.
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    13 分
  • Episode 008: Dark Reflections

    Episode 008: Dark Reflections
    2026/04/05
    A man is polishing an espresso cup in an empty café in Edinburgh. The cup's surface catches the pendant lights and warps his reflection into something older, something more haunted than the face he shows the world. He tilts it. Watches the light bend. Watches the shadows form where none should exist. He has been doing this for eight months. Showing up. Making coffee. Wiping surfaces. Being the last to leave. He is, by every visible measure, a dedicated barista with a talent for punctuality and an unusual willingness to stay late. He is also a Guardian of Clivilius. And the family that owns this café has no idea why he's really here. Tonight, alone in the storeroom after the owner has gone home, he finds a ventilation grate that's been moved. And everything changes.
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    14 分