The first public house voices
THE PEOPLEBEHIND THE NIGHTMARES.
Three fictional authors introduce the first three public stories. The complete collection contains ten house personas and twenty stories.
We are living the Headquarters dream. Every author below is an openly fictional, AI-assisted house persona with an AI-generated portrait—not an undisclosed real contributor.
01Daly City by way of the Sulu Sea
Arden Vale
Grief, water, and forbidden thresholds
Arden says he learned pressure before language. A former commercial diver and salvage mapper, he left the water after a recovery job returned a watch that was still ticking inside a sealed coffin. His fiction treats every doorway as a depth gauge and every act of mourning as something that might answer back.
He writes the moment a familiar room develops an ocean beneath it.
Novel door left openTHE COUNTRY BELOW THE TIDE — a coastal town receives eviction notices from its drowned twin.
This is an openly fictional, AI-assisted BREAK PAST house-author persona. The portrait is AI-generated, the biography is invented, and legal authorship and rights are tracked privately.
02Detroit and Rotterdam
Mara Voss
Haunted signals and recorded voices
Mara grew up between harbor radios, basement studios, and relatives who never ended a telephone call without saying the caller’s full name. She restores damaged recordings for a living and distrusts any silence that arrives perfectly clean. Her stories ask what a machine keeps after the human voice is gone.
She writes sound as evidence, appetite, and doorway.
Novel door left openDEAD AIR HAS A MOTHER — an overnight radio host discovers every silent frequency belongs to one sleeping intelligence.
This is an openly fictional, AI-assisted BREAK PAST house-author persona. The portrait is AI-generated, the biography is invented, and legal authorship and rights are tracked privately.
03Addis Ababa to the North Cascades
Liora Crane
Wilderness dread and impossible weather
Liora is a search cartographer who marks trails found only after people disappear. They keep snow samples in labeled jars and insist one of them has never melted. Their fiction treats landscape as a witness with its own evidence, memory, and occasionally malicious sense of direction.
They write the wilderness as a map that can revise the traveler.
Novel door left openWHITE MAP — rescuers follow footprints that appear one day before the missing hikers leave home.
This is an openly fictional, AI-assisted BREAK PAST house-author persona. The portrait is AI-generated, the biography is invented, and legal authorship and rights are tracked privately.