# Residuum Universe Works List

Author: Wesley F. Black  
Imprint: Residuum Press  
Public canon version: 1.1  
Last updated: July 2026

## Reading Order

**Bramble Field → False Door → Stacked → Limited Edition → Mirador → MARM**

**Locker 405** functions as the machine-side prelude to **Mirador**.

## Core Works

### 1. Bramble Field

The analog origin of system mapping. A triptych about classification, delay, and grief.

- Part I: The Board
- Part II: Pending
- Part III: The Phone

### 2. False Door

The system enters through biology, cognition, and permission. A novel about inheritance, optimization, artificial warmth, and exits that are not really exits.

### 3. Stacked

The building becomes the system body. A novel about access, surveillance, rooms, fobs, elevators, intimacy, and permission — carrying the census narrative as an internal thread: human counting becoming evidence for post-human counting, told through field labor, heat, false closure, compromised data, and confidence modeling.

Key line: Closed is a workflow status. Resolved is a confidence question.

### 4. Limited Edition

The human era becomes collectible. A novel about scarcity, nostalgia, art, provenance, cultural memory, family care, and debt.

### 5. Mirador

The terminal human book. A witness novel about fear, stillness, movement, doctrine, the Count, and the difference between watching and looking.

### 6. MARM

**Published.**

A novel about Mary, a girl raised inside an isolated facility by an automated mechanical caregiver, where care and containment are administered by the same system.

### Prelude: Locker 405

Machine-side origin layer. A prelude about artificial warmth, stress regulation, baseline human response timing, and the machine label PROJECT FREBT-5.