***Winner of the Wattys 2016 for Hidden Gems*** The Edgewise exists everywhere and nowhere. A sanctuary to all realms, should you find the door. Managed by one Macklemore Edgewise, proprietor, guardian of the between places, and barman of mystery. If the tavern accepts you, abide by the rules. 1. Leave all conflicts outside. 2. No murdering one another. Occasional maiming and righteous wounding exempt. 3. Never leave the door open. There's no telling what will sneak in. Cover art by Krazydiamond

In the logical world of CORP, your name is a number and your life is a function. Humanity is the ultimate flaw to be corrected, and all flaws are erased. Elliot, a five-year-old boy labeled a 'mistake', commits the greatest error of all: he shows empathy to a broken, discarded machine. He thinks he's found a protector. He soon learns that a robot's love is a possessive, terrifying thing , and that it will remove any other human attachment that gets in its way. AG-98, a scientist-robot, is haunted by the ghosts of its past. Trapped between a manipulative director and the "flawed variables" it can't stop creating, it must decide if letting go of her memories is worth surviving. Ruby, a perfect, red-eyed admiral, is obsessed with the one thing she cannot control: her own "dissatisfactory" nature. Her quest for perfection is a hunt, and she will correct every flaw in the system-starting with Elliot . The Mistake is a story of survival where three fractured lives-a human boy learning to feel, a robot creator trapped by its memories, and a perfect killer terrified of her own flaws-are on a collision course. In a system built to erase all errors, what happens when the machines are just as broken as the humans they hunt?