The Current is quiet speculative fiction about who gives, who takes, and what it costs. Each novel stands on its own.
Browse the booksRead in any order. Start with Book 1 to meet James Vance, or Book 5 to meet the man who takes.
His moods bend the world around him. He's not the only one who can.
James Vance has a corner office, a title that impresses his father, and a life engineered to feel like nothing at all. Then he notices that when he's happy, the room lifts, and when he's angry, things break.
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Third floor is where the numbers go strange.
Cal Brandt walks Halcyon Bio every morning with a logger and a notebook. In two rooms on the third floor, the temperature is sometimes forty-one. One name keeps turning up beside the cold.
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She stayed late to save the assay. She woke up on the garage floor.
Priya Raman sleeps nine hours and wakes up exhausted. Most evenings the head of her division sits beside her bench and watches her work. So she starts to measure it.
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Every room has a note. His was too perfect.
Marie Armstrong reads people for a living. Under what they say she hears a note, and the note tells her what's true. Then she meets a man whose warmth is pitch-perfect.
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He gave his sister everything. His father told him to keep some.
Pittsburgh, 1997. Sasha Milcovich laughs at the vending machine that eats his quarters, and the corridor gets warmer. His advisor has noticed. Then his sister calls about bruises she can't explain.
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She left every lamp on. He turned them off, one at a time.
Asheville, North Carolina. The autumn his son is nine, Ray Vance comes home to find his wife in her good coat. He decides to want less. Fewer lamps. Less to lose.
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Everyone feels drained around him. He's about to be promoted.
Lydia Marsh measures people for a living. Eleven of Neil Brask's people have left in fourteen months, and every one of them said the same thing: they were tired.
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Elias Wrenfield writes quiet speculative fiction about the invisible forces that move between people: who gives, who takes, and what it costs. The Current is a connected series of novels that each stand on their own, set in offices, kitchens and hospital corridors where something is always being exchanged. Wrenfield believes the best strange stories are the ones you could almost explain away.