The Wire Branch is published here in full, free to read. It is also available to download and keep.
© 2026 S.J. Barrett. You are welcome to read, download, and share it in unmodified form; please don’t republish it or put it to commercial use. The book lives at thewirebranch.com — link here rather than re-hosting it, so a reader always arrives at the whole thing.
Cover image generated with GPT (OpenAI). The text was written in dialogue with Claude (Anthropic) — see the authorship note.