Matthias Valk
Fiction from the bones of history
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Stories grouped by theme, period, or connected characters. Each collection is a world you can stay in.

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The Viehbach Papers

Three people, one event, one century. A monk who stayed. An official who arrived too late to understand what he had done. A librarian who received the pieces and could read each one correctly but could not make them mean anything together. A triptych about how knowledge dies — not through destruction alone, but through separation, timing, and the particular blindness of competence.

3 stories
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Midnight Rooms

A collection exploring the midnight rooms where impossible moral choices live—stories of characters whose expertise becomes the instrument of their moral compromise.

4 stories
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