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Author · Storyteller
Joseph Carter
@josephcarter
Speculative Fiction writer interested in character, atmosphere and the decisions that make stories difficult to forget.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Joseph Carter writes speculative fiction and literary fiction. Their interests range from character and story structure to editing, formatting and the practical realities of independent publishing.
The best ideas rarely arrive in their final form.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Joseph Carter
On the writing desk
Currently creating
Later first draft
The Quiet Index
In a near-future Worcester, a small private library begins receiving books that do not exist in any catalogue, each one describing events that have not happened yet. Its reluctant archivist, Mara Ellison, is drawn into a slow, unsettling investigation when the missing volumes start to mirror choices in her own life. As the pattern grows clearer, she has to decide whether preserving the record matters more than changing the story.
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