Wharf of Lost Souls

In the soot-choked port city of Greystone, a disillusioned crime novelist completes his final tale of an opium smuggler's execution. When the fictional convict materializes in his garret clutching an unwritten diary, the author is dragged through a phantasmagoric underworld of workhouses and corrupt customs halls, confronting the real suffering behind his pen. A Dickensian metafiction exploring guilt, redemption, and the stubborn flicker of humanity in the darkest wharves of the soul.