Reading Path · 6 Works

The Kept Dead

Thematic Path

Presence hardened into permanence — the dead retained, the households that will not let them go, and what a continuance costs the made thing and the living alike.

  1. Cover of The ContinuedThe Continued
    Family governance interrupted by the dead's unyielding aesthetic rule.
  2. Cover of What Remains of Pieter ReathWhat Remains of Pieter Reath
    Family custodian tends the machine that keeps the dead at home.
  3. Cover of The RetainedThe Retained
    A continuity advisor tending legally undead reconstructions in a vault.
  4. Cover of Memorial CostMemorial Cost
    A retained painter catalogs colours in memorial silence.
  5. Cover of The Ones Who Came BackThe Ones Who Came Back
    A clerk signs off on sixty‑three years of redundant lives.
  6. Cover of The VerificationThe Verification
    An AI channels a scholar's voice, blurring authorship and verification.