AntiHisTor is a world just next door to our own. Long Lives is the first set of ten short stories from that world. Each one usually runs to around 30 pages.
A new translation goes up on Substack every month - the first third of each story is free. Links appear here as each one is ready.
Two records of a single ambulance call with the same ID arrive at the central archive - in one the patient lives, in the other he is dead. Night analyst Viktor Brenn finds his own name in the log, and the only way to clear himself leads to an archivist who can read time in data.
Young novice Melco is chosen as confidant to the powerful archprefect Altorius and, within a single day, descends beneath the sacred city to the secret that holds the whole church together. Forty years later, one last task awaits him.