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Micro-epics from Borrowed Time — now on Amazon — plus free reads from the Babushka universe.

The stories below are free here. What the Spine Remembers (Dunya Bocharov's first Skelet fitting) and Boiler Nine (Sergeant Elena Kovalenko with the Black Wolves, years before Echoes of Immortality) are exclusive to the KDP collection.

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The Mirror Wolf

A Black Wolf sergeant patrols Gred's frozen machine graveyard, haunted by old scars and aging bones, until something unexpected arrives.

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Baba Medved

Forest guardian Baba Medved defends her sacred woods from relentless mechanical beasts.

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The Price of Water

Lev, a former doctor, navigates the Kyzylkum desert while haunted by the memory of his family and a past tied to a powerful AI.

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The Last Man

Beneath a city still digesting the old wars, Pavel Kirov walks into a clinic where the only currency that still scans as dangerous is living code

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All Bodies are Provisional

Prosthetics engineer Zuleika Orn steals movement code from Babushka, loses most of herself to the extraction, and rebuilds into Skelet Corp—the company that makes the broken walk again.

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Welcome to the Babachain! Pavel Kirov here. Did you stop by to dive into some of the esteemed entries from Gred's Wiki, penned by the extraordinary Doctor Zakharovna? Or... perhaps you're here to learn something about this book? Well, that's less exciting, but sure, let's go with it... What would you like to know?