The Paper Nautilus Presents:
A mythic descent into memory, death, and time.
It follows a man unmoored from history as he gathers a fractured circle of allies to hunt the monster who shattered the world — and the names that might seal it again.Begin the journey with the first installment, Temporal Fugue, below.

How strange it is to know less than nothing—like the moment before a birth. Only, as a newborn, you learn as intended— slowly, with the help of a mother to guide you. When one is born for the second time, it is far harsher, less forgiving. Violent.I was rent from this place of less than nothing and thrust back into a world I’d forgotten and had forgotten me. I came out gasping, coughing, bleeding from my nose, and with a burning in my chest; as if someone had branded my very heart as their own.The first thing I’d ever known was that exact moment when I opened my eyes and saw the night sky, the decaying ruins of a broken cathedral around me. Shards of stained glass reflected the stars from the ground, and my mangled body arched across a chipped altar.But I wasn’t the only thing that left that place.

In the fractured world of 2360, cities rise like spires above a cracking Earth—built skyward to escape the deadly ground. The poor live at the top, clinging to tradition and rusty metal. The rich stay low, ready to flee.
Clarence Degane was never meant to be a Watcher. But after surviving the fall of his city, he’s changed—and now he patrols the ruins alone, tracking reality’s unraveling seams. When he discovers a repeating signal tied to each new disaster, he’s thrust into a race against time, hunted by pirates, bounty hunters, and old allies with new agendas.
The world is breaking apart. Clarence might be the only one who sees the pattern forming beneath it.
Updates:
| Date: | 1/27/2026 |
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| Temporal Fugue is live and ready to read. |
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