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Gleam

The gargantuan Factory of Gleam is an ancient, hulking edifice of stone, metal and glass ruled over by chaste alchemists and astronomer priests.

As millennia have passed, the population has decreased, and now only the central district is fully inhabited and operational; the outskirts have been left for the wilderness to reclaim. This decaying, lawless zone is the Discard; the home of Wild Alan.

Clever, arrogant, and perpetually angry, Wild Alan is both loved and loathed by the Discard's misfits. He's convinced that the Gleam authorities were behind the disaster that killed his parents and his ambition is to prove it. But he's about to uncover more than he bargained for.

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Tom Fletcher

Tom Fletcher is a young author who has already made a name for himself thanks to spine-chilling readings of his work at Manchester's monthly live lit event, "There's No Point in Not Being Friends". He has published a number of his short stories in a three-author anthology, Before the Rain. The Leaping is his first…

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