Who Watches the Bill
Leah Caldern considers an imagined restaurant table, an offer to pay and what can remain uncertain after the arithmetic is settled.
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The Caldern File
What competent people conceal—and what gives them away.
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The Handoff
Forthcoming March 16, 2027. The edition remains in production; this page will carry confirmed release news and notes on the pressures behind the fiction.