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In 1994, a bitter labor dispute between Major League Baseball and the Players Association destroys a season and plunges the future of the sport into uncertainty. For two amateur scorekeepers, the end of baseball is the end of an escape. They can no longer hide their faces behind their scorecards and the troubles of their time haunt their fragile relationship. Amidst it all is a growing realization that baseball itself is subject to the same forces that cast shadows over their lives. What are scorecards good for? Every one is a mirror of its creator. Deep inside those cryptic grids of figures and diagrams are the thoughts scorekeepers can't put into words: the desire to be made new, an opaque sense of justice. Greed, hate, retribution, death.

Stories from an outpost of the 19th century doll-logging industry Hidden in the north woods of Maine stand the ruins of the logging camps at Lac-Pochette, a place afflicted by an everlasting winter that holds a fortune's worth of doll pine suspended atop a frozen river. Lucy Sargent, the daughter of a poor lumberman, finds it hard to believe such wealth would sit deserted in the forest. Seeking confirmation, she travels to Lac-Pochette, where she instead discovers a runaway girl living in a bunkhouse. The two of them interface with the dolls they find there — rare Merrymeeting dolls, which evaded their typical fates — that each have a tale to tell about the camp, its inhabitants, and the strange nature of the doll pine itself.

Ten Metre Tide is a kinetic novel presented as two interlocking cycles of vignettes. Features an original story, art, photography, embroidery, collage, and music by kazehai + ppilotco.