Length3h 48m
About this audiobook
They call him the Bishop. For thirty-four years Royce Pellam has tended bar from a Gulf Coast oyster house to a casino lounge with no clocks, and doors keep opening for him: a stranger's $500 tip, the last bus seat beside the right old man, a jukebox that skips the instant a kid stops breathing. He has never stayed anywhere long enough to ask who's paying.
Then his mentor dies while he's too far away to say goodbye, and he forgets the name of a woman he loved. So he starts keeping the nights. Every shift he turns his single-dollar tips into a sliver of cryptocurrency and writes the night's best moment into a permanent public ledger, eighty characters at a time. He never sells.
Four thousand nights later, readers smell lime when they open it. Candles lean toward his bar. And the house lights are about to come up on the whole world.
A novella about the god one bartender builds, a night at a time.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction, General Fiction
Length3 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 31, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Prologue: The First Pour
2Act I: The Favored
3Chapter 1: In the Weeds
4Chapter 2: The Bishop of Aransas County
5Chapter 3: Rich
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6Chapter 4: Greyhound
7Act II: The Circuit
8Chapter 5: Boonville, Christmas, No Power
9Chapter 6: Lobby Bar, Waikīkī
10Chapter 7: The House in Kaimukī
11Chapter 8: Frenchmen Street, 4:10 A.M.
12Chapter 9: Fifty
13Act III: The Cost
14Chapter 10: The Silver Pheasant
15Chapter 11: After the Funeral
16Chapter 12: A Name
17Chapter 13: Entry #0001
18Act IV: The Ledger
19Chapter 14: Eighty Characters
20Chapter 15: The Wallet
21Chapter 16: Stool Four
22Chapter 17: The Apprentice
23Chapter 18: Candles
24Chapter 19: #4,032
25Act V: The Thinning
26Chapter 20: The Kiosk
27Chapter 21: The Call
28Chapter 22: House Lights
29Act VI: Last Call
30Chapter 23: What the Ledger Made
31Chapter 24: Same as Always
32Chapter 25: The Road Back
33Chapter 26: The Unwritten Entry
34Epilogue: The First Pour (Again)
35The Complete Ledger: Selected Entries
36Jacket Copy
37Metadata
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