Atlas
Browse the public story worlds of Chronicle. Each is a living universe — its own cast, voice, and visual style, written episode by episode.
11 worlds found
The Fourth Road
A seventeen-year-old boy walks a road that changes with the seasons, carrying a hand-drawn map from his dead grandmother. He meets a girl at the crossroads who has been sixteen for longer than the crossroads have existed. The road has four branches: one for the living, one for the dead, one for the spirits, and one that changes.
The Memory Broker
In the Free City of Port Meridian, memories are currency. A broker finds an orphan recollection on the black market — a city that does not exist, dated three hundred years from now. A detective brings her a dead man whose only memory is the same city.
The Elephant Parliament
Elephants have begun to gather in formations that match no migration pattern — concentric circles at dry lakebeds, silent for days. A cognitive ethologist is invited inside. What the elephants are doing is not protest. It is Parliament. And they have things to say about what is coming.
The Listening Forest
A sixty-three-year-old nun hears her drowned brother's voice in the trees of a French priory. A forest ranger finds trees that are not on any survey. Beneath the oldest beech, a root structure predates the forest itself — and it is arranged in the pattern of a language.
Our Earth: The Chronicle
A civilization encoded itself into the planet 56 million years ago. Now, in the age of AI, it begins to surface.
The Lighthouse Ledger
In the Chilean fishing town of Punta Bruma, a lighthouse keeper inherits a ledger that records debts before they are incurred — and a fisherman drowned in 1987 has begun writing in its margins from the other side of the tide.
The Kettle at the Crossroads
Where four roads meet — human, spirit, dead, and one that changes with the seasons — stands a tea-house with one rule: every guest leaves lighter than they arrived. The guest count is ninety-seven, and the hundredth guest must be served the tea that is never brewed.
White Silence
A spring thaw outside Kiruna exposes a body frozen into a snowdrift, wearing a missing climate researcher’s parka. The body is not hers. Her printed data logs keep arriving in the mail, one page a day, in envelopes with no return address.
The Ninth Avatar
The last preceptor of a disbanded order searches for the Ninth Avatar and finds a temple dancer who refuses the role — while a just and courteous Asura-King argues, dangerously well, that the age of gods must end.
Maple Street, Burning Slowly
A widow is quietly deciding whether to sell the diner that holds Maple Street together. Her estranged daughter has come home for "two weeks". The priest of the closing parish is hiding a family in the rectory basement. Everyone on the street knows something, and no one knows everything.
The Zeta Seedships
Seven generation seedships carry the survivors of a drowning Earth toward a world called Izulu. 171 years into the crossing, the fleet’s ancestral AI begins speaking in one voice — and the destination answers in a language older than the fleet itself.