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by Stefan Mohamed

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How do you find out the truth in a world where the concept no longer applies?

A dame walks into a detective’s office and asks him to find a missing girl. A familiar setup. You might have seen it before.

Or maybe not. Because this detective is woken every morning by a talking magpie, and the reflection he sees in the mirror doesn’t belong to him. And before he can start looking for the girl, he needs to find out if she ever existed in the first place.

Welcome to the nameless city, a fractured metropolis where geography is malleable and reality is relative. Where consensus is a memory, and memory is the least reliable currency around.

And wandering these shifting streets, Johnny Orange, a ‘sort-of detective’. As a rule, Johnny likes to think he knows what’s going on. But between bounty hunting families, terrorist mimes, mythical doomsday weapons and a steady stream of unanswerable questions, he’s starting to realise that his grip on reality is more fragile than he thought.

Does he have a hope in hell of figuring out what’s going on?

Well, he is a detective.

Sort of…