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Speculative Suspense - 19 May 2026

312 pages

The debut novel of author Jason Sealy.

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Stop us if you've been here before.

We were strangers to one another. We were George and Anne. In 2025, on the summer solstice weekend, an aquatic craft froze us both inside a dawn-to-dawn loop.

Which will last generations before spitting us out. We’ll never be the same when it does.
 
The anniversaries of our tragedy are elaborate games played on our small town’s sorry citizens. After all these years, it’s our best attempt to feel something.
 
But we don't exactly see eye to eye lately. So we’re less ready today to remember what time taught us:
 
Some days just don’t work out.
 

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the Townsfolk

Pay attention to the chapter titles.

The story of A Cold Glow takes place over the course of one day - or more accurately, one iteration on a time loop of which only two souls in town are aware.

Every character's POV is written in first-person, present tense. POVs remain on the top of every other page (the chapter titles) to help anchor.

But there is no "I" in the System. The chapters with "System" in their names belong to us, the loopers who used to be George and Anne. We're written just as you're reading us now. Call it first-person collective.

Would you like to get to know us? We already know you - everything you try to hide, even from yourself. In fact we've known you every single way one can.

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Welcome, Dear Reader

Hello! I'm "Jason Sealy," and as a first order of business I am introducing my colossal new blood-spurting sponsor: PredictAct!

Quantum encryption is coming to PredictAct+, eliminating ALL trace of your bets, no matter how large!

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Jason Sealy is from Pittsburgh, PA, and loves all kinds of storytelling. He/they went to trade school for narrative pre-production, production, and post-production, won the Romero of Tomorrow Award in 2017, and made a short film which screened in the Ethnografilm Fest in Paris, France.

After writing numerous screenplays, A Cold Glow marks their first novel. Jason recently completed a Bachelor of Multidisciplinary Studies in Library Science and is readying to enter a Master’s degree in Public Administration. They have two cats.

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EDITORS

The invaluable work these stellar editors gave to A Cold Glow shaped it into something that can actually be read. Seriously, the story used to be ~110,000 words (now 79,000) with almost twice the characters. In my opinion, outside professional editing is required to get out of one's own way.

Sandra Kasturi, developmental editor

 

- Can be found at sandrakasturi.com

Max Zell, copy editor

- Can be found at hiimmax.co.

"Grave Lighting" by Max Zell

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