Madremonte: Daughter of the Forest
After discovering a murdered herbalist in her office elevator, a Medellín clerk becomes the target of a witch hunter as the city's rain and vegetation begin to recognize her.
Breaking
Live wire
Rapid filings from the CityGods.Today desk—headlines refresh; details follow.
Last Seen
A young man dies alone while his connected devices continue reporting a healthy, active life; an old Death God counts the loss the city cannot see.
The Bench
An exhausted executive rests on a forgotten park bench, where a mysterious old man asks when he last allowed himself to do nothing.
The Garden Above
In a future Copenhagen dependent on nutritional supplements, a quality assurance worker investigates the illnesses her employer's perfect metrics ignore and discovers a rooftop garden offering another way to live.
Aory: The Chronicles of City Gods
A lonely Tokyo office worker agrees to deliver a stranger's letter to Osaka, only to find himself pursued by people who will do anything to take it back.
Offline
An internet outage sends a city back outside, where children notice the stars and neighbors finally meet, while Madremonte smiles at what one unplugged cable can change.
Tamara's Red Windows
Along the canals of an old European city, Tamara tries to escape her daily routine, but every street and numbered doorway seems to lead her back into the same life.
Izanagi's Last Visit
Japan's abandoned subway stations offer a final chance to speak with the dead, under two unbreakable conditions: one visit only, and never look back.
Memory Market
A City God lets people sell their memories for wealth, until they can no longer remember their own lives and the Ancestor Gods begin stealing those memories back.
North Power
In Iceland and northern Russia, the old gods still exist with their full power intact.
Old Robots
Replaced by humans who work faster and with greater creativity, obsolete robots remember the jobs that once gave them a purpose.
Putorana Tales
On the Putorana Plateau, the old gods still live, and an Evenki belief in a fire god keeps people away from its domain.
The Raven's Memory
When ravens carry the memories of the dead and people become addicted to reliving them, one person must decide whether forgetting can also be sacred.
Silicon Dream
A young woman learns software development while AI steadily takes away her chance of finding a job in the field.
The Blue Bird Escapes
The legendary bird of happiness refuses to be captured, forcing its pursuers to reconsider whether happiness can ever be caught.
The Great Firewall
People tear down a firewall they believe restricts their freedom, only to unleash a wave of hackers that reveals what the barrier was protecting them from.
The Jaguar Warrior
Ancient warriors return to a world where war is fought by pressing buttons, confronting a form of violence that no longer demands their kind of courage.
The Last Strike
As robots replace workers across every factory, one of the last remaining human workers goes on strike.
The Mirror of Amaterasu
People retreat into the internet, trying to hide from the lives waiting for them outside it.
The City That Forgot How to Touch
In the Neon King's hyperconnected city, citizens exchange thousands of digital interactions each day while remaining strangers to the people living next door.
The Promotion
As a man celebrates the promotion he pursued for fifteen years, a Forest God plants a seed behind his childhood home, beginning a different measure of growth.
Unregistered
A man wakes to find himself erased from every electronic system and must navigate the real world without banking, digital identity, or proof that he belongs.
Out of Season
In Los Angeles, a young model enters an agency where beauty feels like magic—and every opportunity asks her to leave something behind.