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The Joy of Not Turning to the Last Page

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What if waiting for the next chapter isn’t a flaw in storytelling, but one of its greatest pleasures?

In a world built around instant gratification, serial fiction offers something different: anticipation. Readers spend time with characters, speculate about what comes next, and let stories become part of the rhythm of their week. As The Summer Garden continues and Credible Threat: Season One joins it, Mark Posey reflects on why the joy of not turning to the last page may be more valuable than ever.

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Bones of the Priory Is Out Today

A letter from someone who should have been dead for centuries draws Sister Jacobine back to the ruins of Amesbury Priory and the place where her long, impossible life began. Bones of the Priory started as a contribution to a monster hunter anthology, but it quickly became something more personal—a return to one of my favourite characters and the secrets she has spent five hundred years trying to leave behind.