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Ryan Ward
@ryanward
Speculative Fiction writer interested in character, atmosphere and the decisions that make stories difficult to forget.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Ryan Ward writes mainly in speculative fiction and enjoys discussing both the creative and practical sides of making books, from early drafts to finished editions.
The best ideas rarely arrive in their final form.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Ryan Ward
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Currently creating
First draft
The Salt Archive
On the south coast, a municipal archive begins receiving documents that have no record of ever being created: letters from dead residents, planning objections to streets not yet built, and transcripts of conversations nobody remembers having. Mara Vale, the exhausted cataloguer assigned to sort the impossible material, starts to suspect the archive is not preserving the town's past but editing its future. As the missing pieces of her own life begin to surface among the files, she has to decide whether the archive is a fraud, a warning, or the only thing keeping the town coherent.
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