https://atlaswrites.com/Fiction, poetry and comics by Atlas. Noir mysteries, spy stories and fantasy heists, all living on the verge.https://atlaswrites.com/fiction/the-long-view/the-perfect-asset/https://atlaswrites.com/fiction/the-long-view/the-perfect-asset/Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000Five days after the perfect heist, Tav is in a Crown cell, sold out by a friend and missing a ring he keeps reaching for. He’s learned his lesson: the dead can’t betray you. Special Investigations doesn’t want him locked up. They want him working.https://atlaswrites.com/fiction/the-long-view/the-perfect-heist/https://atlaswrites.com/fiction/the-long-view/the-perfect-heist/Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000Five years after walking out of the Accord, the criminal organization nobody walks out of, he’s back in Merranth with a bag of stolen trinkets, a frozen debt, and a scheme to rob the Pendleton vault during the Royal Procession.https://atlaswrites.com/fiction/the-shrike/provenance/https://atlaswrites.com/fiction/the-shrike/provenance/Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000A Belarusian rail clerk walks into a Western embassy offering the paperwork that could catch a sanctioned economy in a lie. Three services want him. None of them dares touch him first. So the job drifts to the man who belongs to nobody, a freelancer the trade calls the Shrike.https://atlaswrites.com/comics/undercity-crown-issue-1/https://atlaswrites.com/comics/undercity-crown-issue-1/Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:00:00 +0000Betrayed, discarded, and back on his feet, ex-Watchman Atlas descends into the Undercity of Strathen with a talking gun and nothing left to lose. The job waiting for him at the bottom pays in the only currency that matters: the name of the man who put him there.https://atlaswrites.com/poetry/journey/https://atlaswrites.com/poetry/journey/Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000A short poem about a (mostly) solitary journey in the desert.https://atlaswrites.com/fiction/a-cleaners-duty/https://atlaswrites.com/fiction/a-cleaners-duty/Sun, 01 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000Three days into a routine sweep of the north, Thomas Spaulder and his squad find an outpost stripped clean and a note somebody hid rather than sent.