It is Friday morning in a small Wisconsin newsroom. A cropped photograph online seems to announce the end of the Saturday bus. Your editor asks you to find out what the notice actually says. The rumour matters to people who use that bus; it is also spreading faster than anyone has read the full sheet of paper.
People you’ll meet
Mara Quinn
The editor, who would rather leave a space than print an unsupported claim.
Eli Brooks
A delivery driver who depends on the town bus and has heard a worrying rumour.
June Patel
The newspaper photographer, alert to what a picture leaves out.
A historic lighthouse is reopening, but its prized lens has vanished. Follow a trail through a Maine harbour town, where a missing object may be easier to explain than a mistake nobody wants to admit.
Your first shift on an enchanted night train begins with a village that cannot wake. Return its missing dawn bell, sort a few impossible parcels, and discover why “found” is not the same as “yours”.