Introduction: In a city caught between old traditions and modern advancements, the dead are not buried—they are Transcribed. Their bodies dissolve into ink and parchment, their lives bound into books, whispering their stories from the vast Library of the Departed. Undertaker-Librarians retrieve and catalog these volumes, ensuring that every soul is recorded, every history preserved.Alistair Crowe is one such Undertaker—a man who collects the dead without question, a keeper of stories he never dares to read. But when a routine Transcription yields an anomaly, something that should not be possible, he finds himself drawn into a mystery that challenges everything he knows about identity, memory, and the truth we leave behind.Because in death, every story should be final.Some are not.A short story (probably gonna be six chapters long) written for the January 2025 Community Magazine Contest....