The Quiet Between is not empty. It is full of stories waiting to be read
Every story lives in its own age. Choose a door. Do not be surprised if it knocks back.
Featured Stories
The Wanderers—Available Now
“Death feels colder than I had imagined.”
They built a wall to keep the wasteland out. They built a dome to keep the sky away. They built a life inside to forget the world that died.
But the Wanderers remembered.
When the Wanderers leave for the wasteland and the gates lock behind them, Arlo watches the woman he loves walk toward almost certain death.
He follows alone. Beyond the Great Wall. Into the grey.
To find her, he must defy the city's ruthless enforcers and cross a dying world where nothing grows — almost nothing.
A standalone Crooked Atlas story.
The Woodland Witch—Available Now
“Ring the bell, my dear witch, and I will follow you gladly.”
A Woodland Witch hides deep in the dark forest. Her plague, fuelled by dark magic, strikes at the heart of the village and its people, their skin rotting whilst they still lived.
Determined to prove his worth, a man storms the woods to defeat the evil witch, but what he finds is not warts, toadstools, and deadly spells, but kindness and beauty. The witch is not wicked at all.
Yet the fact still remains. She caused the plague. Her death could end it. He must choose to save his village or let them die to save the witch.
A standalone Crooked Atlas Story.
Where the Witches Wait—Coming Tuesday 4 August
‘Even the purest of souls falter under the touch of man.’
Cora's brother is missing.
Riots rage through the cog-choked streets of Anatine. Witches wait in the woods. Death knocks on every door. And the city guards refuse to help.
Her only clues are a mechanical mouse, a cryptic note signed “AH,” and a promise Kit made the night he vanished: I'll be back by morning.
The trail leads into the forest—into the territory of the witches she was raised to fear. When they save her from a monster in the dark, she begins to wonder if everything she was told was a lie.
The witches are kind. They offer her tea. They promise to find her brother.
But Cora was too young to know: kindness always comes at a cost.
A standalone Crooked Atlas story.
To Hunt a Shadow—Coming Tuesday 1 September
‘Beneath it all, you’re still just that weak man who couldn’t save his family.’
He never missed a target. Never asked a question. Never backed down.
Until her.
They call him The Hunter — a man forged from pain, who roams the galaxy eliminating prey with ruthless efficiency. His latest contract: eliminate a bounty hunter whose face he cannot know.
But when a small girl inserts herself between The Hunter and his prey, he must face the one thing he swore to destroy.
The father he buried.
A standalone Crooked Atlas story.
