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A dark comedy about the slow violence of the modern workplace.
The Thirteen Fractures — a novel sequence
Writing the autopsy of American institutions, one fracture at a time.
Every empire in history collapsed around its 250th year. America turns 250 in 2026. The Thirteen Fracturesis a sequence of thirteen novels mapping institutional collapse across America’s original colonies — drawn line by line from the public record.
Every statistic is real. Every corporation is fictional. The distance is the point.
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- Novels
- 13
- Original colonies
- 38
- Volumes in all
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- Republic
The Thirteen Fractures[ REDACTED ]BOOK I · FORTHCOMING
Book I · Releasing July 4, 2026
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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania — one of the most productive farming regions in the country, and one of the most quietly contaminated. When a family farm and its dying patriarch come under pressure from a company that never says the word buy, the paperwork tells one story and the water tells another.
The first of thirteen novels tracing how an institution fails — built entirely on the public record. Every statistic is real. Every corporation is invented. The distance between them is the point.
The Thirteen Fractures
The full sequence →- I[ REDACTED ]Water
- II[ REDACTED ]Elections
- III[ REDACTED ]The Courts
- IV[ REDACTED ]Finance
- V[ REDACTED ]Surveillance
- VI[ REDACTED ]Medicine
- VII[ REDACTED ]Labor
- VIII[ REDACTED ]Genomics
- IX[ REDACTED ]Territory
- X[ REDACTED ]Algorithmic governance
- XI[ REDACTED ]Heritage
- XII[ REDACTED ]Faith
- XIII[ REDACTED ]The Republic
Accompanied by The Rootbound Archives — twenty companion novellas. Thirty-eight volumes in all.
Also from K.R. Elliott
The working-life novels
Forthcoming · titles & dates subject to change
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Institutional collapse seen from inside a corporate layoff consultancy.
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A forensic indictment of the productivity industry — disguised as a productivity manual.
About
K.R. Elliott
K.R. Elliott spent two years inside EPA enforcement files, federal court records, and agricultural data before writing a word of fiction. The result is The Thirteen Fractures— thirteen novels that trace how institutions fail, set across America’s original thirteen colonies.
Every statistic in the books is verified against the public record. Every corporation is invented. The distance between the two is where the work lives. Elliott lives in the Pacific Northwest.
The dispatches
Notes from the archive, and word the moment the first book is available. No noise.