Where the Lantern Breaks

Stories from the Market of Bones

By: Aisha Arshad

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Paperback | 1 January 2026

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Where the Lantern Breaks is a collection of allegorical stories set in a world where power, profit, and silence shape everyday life.

Moving through myth, memory, and political imagination, the book follows a figure called Humanity as she passes through systems that trade care for efficiency and reduce lives to data. Gods of Capital, Automation, and Control appear alongside quieter forces-empathy, memory, resistance-that refuse to disappear completely.

These stories move through sold skies, monitored homes, and fractured relationships. They do not offer solutions. They ask questions. They watch what happens when progress forgets people.

This book is written for readers of literary fiction and political allegory who believe stories can still hold truth, even when the world prefers convenience.

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