The Long Game (Paperback)
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Independently Published, 2026
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Paperback. Some things take years. The right things take exactly as long as they need to. The Long Game is the tenth volume in the Nightshade Stories series - ten original short stories about patience, obsession, and the slow reveal. Not thrillers. Not suspense in the conventional sense. Something quieter and more devastating: the specific satisfaction of watching a plan unfold over years, sometimes decades, and arrive at exactly the outcome it was always building toward. The ten stories inside: - Twenty Years of Waiting - She wasn't waiting for a person. She was waiting for the version of herself who was ready. It took twenty years. She wasn't in a hurry.- The Patient Man - For eleven years, an urban planner watched a building that should have been demolished. He was not the only one with a plan.- What She Was Building - Her brother was convicted at twenty-six. She spent the next fourteen years, evening by evening, building the case that would get him out.- The Long Count - Three thousand, four hundred and twelve games. Gilles was ahead by seventeen. Antoine had been studying his game for thirty-one years. So had Gilles.- The Setup - She discovered the fraud in year four. She spent three more years making the case so complete it couldn't be dismissed. Then she went to the board.- The Delayed Response - Her father's letter arrived when she was twenty-three. She wrote back when she was forty. The seventeen years were not wasted. They were required.- The Chess Player - His son left university at twenty-two for a kitchen in Vancouver. His father said: all right. Then he waited nine years for the right question.- What He Wrote Every Year - Twenty-two years of January cards, sent to an address he wasn't sure still worked. He didn't know if she was reading them. She kept every one.- The Quiet Campaign - She had been running for city council for six years without running for city council. When she finally filed the papers, the campaign was almost easy.- The Final Move - The notebooks had been dated and kept since 1993. Thirty years later, Beauchamp was retiring. The time had come to correct the record. These are not stories about waiting. They are stories about the specific form of intelligence that looks like patience from the outside and is, from the inside, simply the refusal to act before the moment is right. Every ending in this book was earned. Every one of them took exactly as long as it needed to take. Volume X of the Nightshade Stories series by Vale Nighton. Each volume stands alone - no prior reading required. Volumes I through IX are available now. Perfect for readers who love literary fiction, slow-burn storytelling, and endings that arrive with the quiet force of something that was always inevitable. Read one. You'll read them all. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
N° de ref. del artículo 9798199772617
- Título
- The Long Game (Paperback)
- Autor
- Vale Nighton
- Editorial
- Independently Published
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- new
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798199772617
- Serie
- Libro 10 de 11: Nighshade Stories
The Long Game is the tenth volume in the Nightshade Stories series — ten original short stories about patience, obsession, and the slow reveal. Not thrillers. Not suspense in the conventional sense. Something quieter and more devastating: the specific satisfaction of watching a plan unfold over years, sometimes decades, and arrive at exactly the outcome it was always building toward.
The ten stories inside:
• Twenty Years of Waiting — She wasn't waiting for a person. She was waiting for the version of herself who was ready. It took twenty years. She wasn't in a hurry.
• The Patient Man — For eleven years, an urban planner watched a building that should have been demolished. He was not the only one with a plan.
• What She Was Building — Her brother was convicted at twenty-six. She spent the next fourteen years, evening by evening, building the case that would get him out.
• The Long Count — Three thousand, four hundred and twelve games. Gilles was ahead by seventeen. Antoine had been studying his game for thirty-one years. So had Gilles.
• The Setup — She discovered the fraud in year four. She spent three more years making the case so complete it couldn't be dismissed. Then she went to the board.
• The Delayed Response — Her father's letter arrived when she was twenty-three. She wrote back when she was forty. The seventeen years were not wasted. They were required.
• The Chess Player — His son left university at twenty-two for a kitchen in Vancouver. His father said: all right. Then he waited nine years for the right question.
• What He Wrote Every Year — Twenty-two years of January cards, sent to an address he wasn't sure still worked. He didn't know if she was reading them. She kept every one.
• The Quiet Campaign — She had been running for city council for six years without running for city council. When she finally filed the papers, the campaign was almost easy.
• The Final Move — The notebooks had been dated and kept since 1993. Thirty years later, Beauchamp was retiring. The time had come to correct the record.
These are not stories about waiting. They are stories about the specific form of intelligence that looks like patience from the outside and is, from the inside, simply the refusal to act before the moment is right. Every ending in this book was earned. Every one of them took exactly as long as it needed to take.
Volume X of the Nightshade Stories series by Vale Nighton. Each volume stands alone — no prior reading required. Volumes I through IX are available now.
Perfect for readers who love literary fiction, slow-burn storytelling, and endings that arrive with the quiet force of something that was always inevitable. Read one. You'll read them all.
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