Thirteen
Fractures
Every statistic is real. Every corporation is fictional.
A near-future America, assembled one fracture at a time from court rulings, datasets, and statutes that are already real.
The Series
Thirteen novels. One per original colony.
Thirteen Fractures is a thirteen-novel literary dystopian thriller, mapping institutional collapse across the thirteen original American colonies — each book locked to one state and one fracture: environmental, electoral, judicial, financial, surveillance, memory, labor, faith, sovereignty.
Built on real public data — EPA enforcement records, contamination levels, farm-loss and land-consolidation statistics — with fictional composite corporations, the series traces how ordinary people become the archivists of a collapse the institutions stopped recording.
Each book stands alone. Together they form one archive. Every statistic is real. Every corporation is fictional. The distance between the two is the point.
The Thirteen
One fracture at a time.
Thirteen novels, one locked to each of the original colonies. The first is open. The rest stay sealed until release.
- I
House of Dust
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- XIII
Book I
House of Dust
Grace Washington came to Lancaster County for a story. She found an archive.
Behind a false wall in her father's root cellar: forty-seven binders spanning decades. A resistance network organized in kitchens and barns. Composition notebooks recording sixty years of poisoned water, stolen land, and symbols no one can explain. And a file with her name on it, dated two years before she arrived.
Samuel Tate won't sign the form. Won't sell the water rights. Won't stop recording what the corporation does to the farms around him — even as the same corporation runs the hospital, the insurance company, and the meters blinking on every property in the county.
The evidence is complete. The institutions meant to act on it have been gutted. The archive outlasted its creator.
Now it needs a recorder.
The Record
Every statistic is real. Every corporation is fictional.
The corporations in these pages are invented. The machinery they operate is not. Every entry below is a matter of public record.
The Climate Corporation, an agricultural-data company, was acquired by Monsanto for about $1.1 billion in 2013 and passed to Bayer in 2018 — consolidating farm-level data under a private agrochemical owner.
Buck v. Bell, the 1927 decision that upheld compulsory sterilization of the “unfit” and produced the line “Three generations of imbeciles are enough,” has never been overruled.
In Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court struck down the Voting Rights Act’s coverage formula, rendering federal “preclearance” unenforceable; Texas implemented its previously-blocked voter-ID law the same day.
A study of 1,779 U.S. policy outcomes over two decades found that average citizens’ preferences have a near-zero, statistically non-significant effect on policy when they diverge from those of economic elites.
ProPublica’s analysis of the COMPAS criminal-risk algorithm found it falsely flagged Black defendants as future criminals at nearly twice the rate of white defendants; later work proved such disparities are mathematically unavoidable.
In 2023 the FTC ordered therapy provider BetterHelp to pay $7.8 million for sharing consumers’ mental-health intake data with Facebook, Snapchat, Pinterest, and Criteo for advertising despite promising to keep it private.
Massachusetts has collected a heel-prick blood sample from nearly every infant born in the state since 1963, and retains residual newborn-screening specimens for 15 to 16 years under state regulation.
23andMe filed for bankruptcy in March 2025, putting the genetic data of roughly 15 million customers up for sale; within months about 1.9 million customers had requested deletion of their data.
In Hachette Book Group v. Internet Archive, the Second Circuit affirmed in 2024 that the Internet Archive’s “Controlled Digital Lending” of in-copyright books is not fair use — a ruling over who controls access to digitized texts.
The Archive
Somewhere, a record is being kept of everything they tried to erase.
The transmissions have already begun. Most people aren’t listening yet.
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