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STATION 83
She went to the Arctic to escape the lies. She found a truth no one would believe.
Dr. Maya Chen's career ended the day she reported her supervisor for scientific fraud. Six months later, blacklisted and broke, she takes the only job she can a winter rotation at Station 83, the most isolated research outpost in the Arctic. Six months of darkness. Six months of silence. Six months to figure out if she still believes in science at all.
But Station 83 has a history. A 25% early departure rate. Researchers who flee into the polar night speaking of sounds beneath the ice. Of something breathing in the depths. Of voices assembled from static and seismic patterns.
The previous researcher, Dr. Volkov, left her a There is something beneath Station 83. Something conscious. Something that has been waiting millions of years for someone to listen.
In the abandoned Deep Module, Maya discovers fifty years of classified data. Temperature anomalies at 3.2 kilometers depth. Electromagnetic patterns that evolve over time, learning human language. Seismic rhythms that match no geological process.
And evidence that in 1974, a Soviet-Norwegian drilling team broke through the ice into a void that shouldn't exist—and made contact with something that responded.
Now the entity is dying. Its systems failing after eons of dormancy. And it's desperate for one thing before the recognition. Someone to acknowledge it existed. Someone to care that it mattered.
Maya has spent her career fighting for truth that institutions refused to accept. But this truth is darker. Stranger. More dangerous.
Because the last researcher who made contact with the entity never came back human.
And Maya has twelve days before the sun sets for four months of polar night.
Twelve days to Is she willing to risk everything—her sanity, her humanity, her life—to bear witness to the last survivor of a civilization that died before humans existed?
Or will she become the twenty-fifth researcher to flee Station 83, leaving the entity to die alone in the darkness?
Dr. Maya Chen's career ended the day she reported her supervisor for scientific fraud. Six months later, blacklisted and broke, she takes the only job she can a winter rotation at Station 83, the most isolated research outpost in the Arctic. Six months of darkness. Six months of silence. Six months to figure out if she still believes in science at all.
But Station 83 has a history. A 25% early departure rate. Researchers who flee into the polar night speaking of sounds beneath the ice. Of something breathing in the depths. Of voices assembled from static and seismic patterns.
The previous researcher, Dr. Volkov, left her a There is something beneath Station 83. Something conscious. Something that has been waiting millions of years for someone to listen.
In the abandoned Deep Module, Maya discovers fifty years of classified data. Temperature anomalies at 3.2 kilometers depth. Electromagnetic patterns that evolve over time, learning human language. Seismic rhythms that match no geological process.
And evidence that in 1974, a Soviet-Norwegian drilling team broke through the ice into a void that shouldn't exist—and made contact with something that responded.
Now the entity is dying. Its systems failing after eons of dormancy. And it's desperate for one thing before the recognition. Someone to acknowledge it existed. Someone to care that it mattered.
Maya has spent her career fighting for truth that institutions refused to accept. But this truth is darker. Stranger. More dangerous.
Because the last researcher who made contact with the entity never came back human.
And Maya has twelve days before the sun sets for four months of polar night.
Twelve days to Is she willing to risk everything—her sanity, her humanity, her life—to bear witness to the last survivor of a civilization that died before humans existed?
Or will she become the twenty-fifth researcher to flee Station 83, leaving the entity to die alone in the darkness?
107 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 13, 2025
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