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A dark comedy about the slow violence of the modern workplace.
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A novel sequence
The Thirteen Fractures
Every empire in history collapsed around its 250th year. America turns 250 in 2026. The Thirteen Fracturesis a sequence of thirteen novels mapping institutional collapse across America’s original colonies — drawn line by line from the public record.
Every statistic is real. Every corporation is fictional. The distance is the point.
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WaterWhat runs beneath the land is worth more than the land — and quieter to take.
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ElectionsHow a majority learns its vote no longer counts.
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The CourtsWhen the last room that was supposed to be fair stops pretending.
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FinanceWealth so large it stops being money and becomes a kind of weather.
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SurveillanceThe war you cannot hear because it is being fought inside your own records.
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MedicineA system built to heal, audited until the healing is the line item that goes.
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LaborThe cost of a working life, paid in full and never returned.
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GenomicsWhat it means to be sorted before you are born.
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TerritoryLand claimed by everyone and answerable to no one.
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Algorithmic governanceWhen the decisions that rule a life are made by something that cannot be questioned.
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HeritageThe stories a nation tells about its blood, and who is written out of them.
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FaithBelief turned into an instrument — and the ground it is buried in.
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The RepublicWhat is left to defend when the institutions are already gone.
Companion volumes
The Rootbound Archives
Alongside the thirteen novels run The Rootbound Archives — twenty companion novellas that work the same ground from closer in, tracing the smaller lives the larger collapse moves through.
Thirteen novels and twenty archives. Thirty-eight volumes in all.
Also from K.R. Elliott
The working-life novels
Forthcoming · titles & dates subject to change
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Institutional collapse seen from inside a corporate layoff consultancy.
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A forensic indictment of the productivity industry — disguised as a productivity manual.
Follow the sequence
Notes from the archive, and word the moment the first book is available. No noise.