The Lost Deaths

In the City of Light, even Deaths can die. The year is 1889. As Eiffel and his iron tower herald a new age of science and industry, young Laurent Valmore learns a dead man’s secret: that Deaths great and small have preyed upon men since the dawn of civilization, and that mankind will only achieve immortality once they are all slain. This is his first hunt. It won’t be the last. Winner of the January 2025 Community Magazine Contest.