by NinthWitness
Caldmouth is a port city the fog never quite lets go of. Every so often a street, a ship, or a person simply slips — and when the world gives them back, they're marked. Elias Marrow just wanted eleven crowns for a night's inventory work. Instead he found a sealed hold full of something the manifest never mentioned, and came out the other side owing a debt he never agreed to, carrying a name — Witness — that the Bureau of Unclosed Cases now owns. Every rank of power comes with a price paid in memory, years, or the people you love. Every case that doesn't get solved gets marked closed — a euphemism, if you're marked yourself, for something considerably worse. And somewhere in the Bureau's own archive is a file on his father, dead nine years, still open. The Unclosed is a gaslamp mystery serial about an amoral bureaucracy, a fog that eats people, and one broke, clever dockworker who intends to reopen exactly the one case they never wanted looked at again.
| # | Title | Words |
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| 1 | What the Fog Kept | 0 |
| 2 | What the Ledger Takes | 0 |
| 3 | What the Seal Remembers | 0 |
| 4 | Chapter 4 — What the Closed Don't Say | 0 |
| 5 | Chapter 5 — What the Widow Knew | 0 |
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| Chapter 6 — What the Bureau Won't Say |
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| 7 | Chapter 7 — What the Broker Sold | 0 |
| 8 | Chapter 8 — What Moves at High Tide | 0 |
| 9 | Chapter 9 — What the Night Before Costs | 0 |
| 10 | Chapter 10 — What Waits in the Slip | 0 |
| 11 | Chapter 11 — What the Court Remembers | 0 |
| 12 | Chapter 12 — What Closes, What Doesn't | 0 |
| 13 | Chapter 13 — What the Faithful Believe | 0 |
| 14 | Chapter 14 — What the Ledger Market Sells | 0 |
| 15 | Chapter 15 — What Rin Never Told Him | 0 |
| 16 | Chapter 16 — What the Warehouse Held | 0 |
| 17 | Chapter 17 — What Wren Became | 0 |
| 18 | Chapter 18 — What the Fog Divided | 0 |
| 19 | Chapter 19 — What Toby Chose | 0 |
| 20 | Chapter 20 — What They Testified | 0 |
| 21 | Chapter 21 — What Voss Decided | 0 |
| 22 | Chapter 22 — What the Second Case Leaves Behind | 0 |
| 23 | Chapter 23 — What the Tribunal Wants | 0 |
| 24 | Chapter 24 — What the Collectors Kept | 0 |
| 25 | Chapter 25 — What Seraphine Found | 0 |
| 26 | Chapter 26 — What the Reader Left | — |
| 27 | Chapter 27 — What the Sister Sold | — |
| 28 | Chapter 28 — What the Archive Kept | — |
| 29 | Chapter 29 — What the Archivist Said | — |
| 30 | Chapter 30 — What the Seat Wanted | — |
| 31 | Chapter 31 — What His Father Wrote | — |
| 32 | Chapter 32 — What Voss Owed | — |
| 33 | Chapter 33 — What Was Left in Row Nine | — |
| 34 | Chapter 34 — What Five Points Make | — |
