Author: BlakKwene
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Chapter Three: Like It Never Left the Stove
“Is this how it used to taste?” “Like it never left the stove.”
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Chapter 5: A Name in Three Pieces
To call him back, Rene must speak his name—not the one given by records, but the name from before erasure. Three words stitched in spirit. And when she says them, he answers.
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Chapter 4: Carriage of the Forgotten
The train holds more than echoes—it holds the forgotten. Rene Dey meets a woman who remembers her bloodline, and learns the only way to call her grandfather back is to speak his true name.
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Chapter 3: Conductor’s Mercy
The train knows Rene Dey. It was waiting. But what begins as a search for her grandfather turns into something else—when the conductor whispers mercy and the clock shatters.
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Chapter One: Not Built to Kneel
Her knees bent just enough to stop him. “Come back tomorrow—with better shoes.”
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The Price of Extension – Introduction
They weren’t built to pass as human. But they were named, loved, and remembered.
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Chapter 2: When the Blade Spoke
A blade. A whisper. A word etched into her blood. Rene Dey awakens with her grandfather missing and only one clue: he’s already boarded. And so must she.
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Chapter 1: The Ticket Left Behind
Rene Dey never saw her grandfather cry—until the day she found the glowing train ticket hidden in her grandmother’s Quran. Now she holds a pass to a spectral railway running on memory and loss. And the train is already on its way.
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Which food, when you eat it, instantly transports you to childhood? Fried potatoes and onions. My grandma used to make them whenever her grandchildren came to visit. He’d slap her backside and she’d be like “Homney, stop that in from of the children.” As we got older the flirtatious behavior just got worse, in a…
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