Remembered by Dust Chapter 6: Broken Levees

Last week, Dust learned how towers rise, brick by brick and belief by belief, and how a body can be taught to forget its own light.

This week, the water comes. “Broken Levees” moves through floods both ancient and modern: deluge as judgment, disaster as policy, survival as paperwork. Dust witnesses how some are handed boats while others are handed blame, and what it means to be human in the aftermath: soaked through, but not destroyed.

And as always in Remembered by Dust, you can read this chapter on its own. Think of this book like an album: each piece stands alone, but together they form the larger story of Dust: what we lose, what we carry, and what refuses to drown.

Thank you for reading “Broken Levees.” With this chapter, we close Book 1: Exposition, the rising waters, the warnings, the first fractures in Dust’s memory.

Next week, we step onto new ground. Book 2: Escape opens with “Brushfire,” a chapter where heat speaks, names matter, and Dust begins to understand what it means to be called forward instead of washed away.

Up next: Brushfire. The fire is waiting.

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