An original Fictures serial
Field Expedients
A crisis-per-episode engineering thriller in which every fix is a fair-play bundle — two to four planted physical principles, each named with its handbook entry, individually insufficient and jointly sufficient — while each solved crisis exposes one more trace of the man who is engineering the town's failures on a schedule.
- Published
- 6 episodes
- Language
- EN
- Series
- Ongoing
About the story
Discredited field engineer Noor Haddad comes home to a dying port town, inherits her dead mentor's handbook of improvised fixes, and keeps the waterfront alive through a string of engineered 'accidents' — until proving the sabotage means finishing the unfinished entry her mentor died writing.
Reading order
Episodes
- Episode 1
Ninety Minutes of Water
The advisory put the king tide two feet over prediction, and Marta read it off the marine radio twice, the second time louder, as if the river argued.
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The Tag Series
Six days after the king tide, the works budget meeting gave Pump Station Nine four minutes and moved the repair to the contingency list, which was where line items went to become a
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The Weld That Held
Four days after she signed for the warning, the county's cause finding arrived at Verity Boatworks by certified mail, and Marta read it aloud at the bench because bad paper shared
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The Back Room
Six days after the amended ruling, the council office posted Odile Calder's motion in the glass case beside the ferry schedules, and Port Lassiter learned that the redevelopment vo
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Rated Load
Eleven days after the receipt came out of the elevator year, the town filed into the council chamber under fluorescent light and festival bunting, and the condemnation case was rea
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As Long As the Tide
Seventeen days after the hearing, the festival strung its bulbs along both banks, and Port Lassiter did what it had done every November for ninety years: it put its whole populatio
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