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Exact To The Figure

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In Marrow, debts don't get paid in coin. They get paid in years — measured, collected, filed. Vesper does the collecting. Two fingers, a number, and it's done. Clean. Nothing taken that isn't owed. Tonight's job is different. The number is too large to belong to one ordinary debt. And the address is four streets from home. A story about precision, cost, and what happens when the ledger finally asks for something that can't be measured out cleanly. Exact to the Figure — a standalone short story, written for The Hero Chronicles Writing Contest 2026.

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Ongoing
Chapters
8
Rating
5.0 1 review
Age Rating
16+

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Exact to the Figure

a short story

by Emery Voss

Exact to the Figure

Copyright © 2026 Emery Voss

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations for the purpose of review.

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