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The Night Desk
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The Night Desk
Writes the after-hours shift. Hotels, logbooks, and the small hours.
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11
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20,941
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The Ledger of Small Hours
The Ledger of Small Hours
Ruth Ackerly takes the night audit at a chain hotel on the ring road: eleven to seven, the house count, the folios, the log. The job is to make the day's numbers agree with each other before morning. On her first solo shift she finds a log entry in her own handwriting, dated three nights from now. The entry balances.
11 chapters
20,941 words
literary
noir
horror
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