The Night Shift Almanac, Vol. 4: Markets Before Morning

About this book

Every morning the city wakes to find breakfast already waiting, and never asks who set the table. Volume Four of The Night Shift Almanac stays up to watch. Between midnight and six a.m., the markets do their quiet, enormous work: a flower shed receives a bundle nobody ordered, an ice house cuts a block with yesterday still inside it, a fish auction sells an empty crate to whoever needs it most, and a weighmaster's brass scale measures something other than weight. A garland strings itself. A delivery order arrives from a house that is gone. Ten new stories, sequenced through the night, ending exactly at six, when the night pays its bill and the morning arrives hungry.