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Clean Rain

The rain has gone soft. Nobody will say why.

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Free. No download. Best on iPhone, held sideways, with headphones.

He can go back to the best day of his life whenever he wants.

Every time he does, there's a little less of it left.

TRAILER//01:23

Cole Varek was the best soldier in Task Force 58, the unit New Carthage sent when it wanted something finished. Now he wakes up in alleys with blue rings in his eyes, half dead on HERA, a drug that puts you back inside your best memory.

Then a kid pulls a knife on him in the Lazarus and dies with a new kind of HERA in his pocket. Ninety-one percent pure. It doesn't need the glass. The same night, a friend he buried sends him a message.

And for the first time in forty years, the rain over the Stacks doesn't burn. It should be good news. The people paying attention are frightened.

The people of New Carthage

Chapters

  1. Cole in an alley in the rain

    PROLOGUE

    Lazarus

    A rooftop, a kite, a sky nobody has seen in forty years. Then an alley, a bar, and a kid with a knife.

  2. Mercy, a flying car, over black water

    CHAPTER 01

    Mercy

    A new kind of drug, a free clinic in a dead laundromat, and an old man who can't hear his wife's voice anymore.

  3. A man on a water tower in the rain

    CHAPTER 02

    Wren

    A dead man at a fish stall. A market at dawn, with the Wardens already on the roofs.

  4. Sleepers in glass pods in a flooded hall

    CHAPTER 03NEW

    Elysium

    A club under the waterline where nobody wants to wake up, run by an old friend.

Chapter Four is in the works. Your choices carry forward.

How to play on iPhone

  1. Open clean-rain.com in Safari.
  2. Tap Share. It's the square with the arrow pointing up. If you see ••• at the bottom instead, tap that first.
  3. Tap Add to Home Screen, then Add. If it isn't in the list, scroll down or tap More. Leave Open as Web App on.
  4. Open Clean Rain from your Home Screen. It runs full screen, with no browser bars.
  5. Turn your phone sideways. Put your headphones in.

Your progress is saved on your phone, not online. The Home Screen version keeps its own save, separate from Safari's, so stay with one. Make it the Home Screen one: Safari can clear a website's data after a week away. On Android, use your browser's Install or Add to Home screen option. On a computer, it plays in any modern browser.

CONTENT WARNING

Clean Rain contains drug use, overdose, graphic violence and gore, strong language and references to suicide. It deals with addiction and grief.