The map
It was not on any current map.
Bright Hollow sits in a valley of pine and wooden rooftops with a white church steeple at its center. It is not on any current map. At Morrow Biotech it is the town in the dead records.
The world No Saints: Bright Hollow
Bright Hollow.
Some towns do not disappear because they are abandoned. Some disappear because they are answered.
A town missing from current maps. Everything on this page comes from Issue 1 and the publisher’s own description of it. The issue keeps the rest.
The frequency
The distress call used his private frequency.
Nobody has that number. The call still came, and Atlas answered it. When he asks who called for help, the whole town answers at once.
The church
Nobody built the church.
It stands at the center of town and it listens. Ask who built it and the answer is the same every time: no one. It grew.
The bell
The sound was red.
When the church bell rings, the sound goes everywhere, into every person. That is how it reaches them. Thirty miles away, something buried in a Newark lab hears the same bell.
The promise
No one here should ever have to hurt alone.
The town gave its hurt, its guilt, and the prayers that curdled to the church so it could keep moving. The pain does not go away. It becomes theirs. Bright Hollow calls that mercy. Atlas has another word for it.
Thirty miles away
Newark, New Jersey.
Morrow Biotech keeps a buried lab and a project it calls the endless pursuit of wholeness. When the signal spike hits, every system in the building feels it. Whatever touched Bright Hollow touches this place too.
Convergence
The signal found four.
Every path into Bright Hollow leads toward the same bell.
The bell is already ringing.
Start with
Issue 1.
No Saints: Bright Hollow, Issue 1: The Town That Asked. Kindle edition. Mature readers.