Deep MeridianPress
Christopher M. Jenkins · Author
Fiction that makes ordinary life permanently strange.
Enter the MeridianAbout the Press
Fiction that lives
at the boundary
Deep Meridian Press publishes fiction set at the exact moment before everything changes permanently — the invisible line between what a character believes and what is actually true.
That line runs through deep space. Through a grief counselor’s apartment at 2am. Through the recorded history of the Exodus itself.
Every protagonist in these pages stands alone not because they lack people, but because they lack witnesses. They see what others can’t — or won’t — and they carry the weight of that knowledge into the unknown.
You don’t read a Christopher M. Jenkins novel from the outside. You stand next to Moses at the burning bush wondering what that voice actually was. You sit with Ray Garrison on a quiet night shift when the number on the screen ends the argument. You are in the room. You feel the weight before the character does. That’s not a stylistic choice — it’s a deliberate discipline Jenkins calls Forensic Minimalism: the central truth is never named inside the book. The reader assembles it through accumulation, through what isn’t said.
His characters live in Threshold Fiction — the last moment before everything becomes after. That’s where Jenkins sets the story. That’s where it stays.
He leaves the reader on the threshold — aware, unsettled, changed.
— Christopher M. Jenkins, Founder
Deep Meridian Press. That’s not branding. That’s identity.
About the Author
Christopher M. Jenkins has spent his whole life inventing explanations for things that don’t have clean ones. It started in childhood — lying awake long after he was supposed to be asleep, inventing answers in his head to questions nobody else could give.
He has always noticed what other people miss. The quiet kid in the back of the classroom that something deeper was going on with. The patient whose chart said one thing and whose eyes said another. The pause before the answer that meant something was wrong.
Jenkins spent decades in rooms where that instinct mattered — classrooms, hospital floors, the 3am corridor. He never stopped seeing those things.
He was twenty years old, finishing an assignment he didn’t think much about. A composition class. A story about a planet called Zargonia. He’d always made things up — Star Trek episodes on the playground, missions in the backyard when old cars became spaceships. He assumed every kid did.
Then his instructor wrote this.
Life happened after that. Degrees. A career in classrooms and hospitals. A family. Over three decades of rooms where other things mattered more than the stories in his head.
Deep Meridian Press is what happens when the stories finally run out of places to wait.
On Character & Craft
Moses thinks he knows who he’s talking to. He doesn’t.
Garrison sees exactly what’s coming. He’s not wrong.
Pearson has never misread a person. Until…
Nora can’t locate the exact moment something changed.
Mara has a feeling she can’t name.
Gabrielle isn’t sure anyone sees her at all.
“I wasn’t reading about him. I was with him.”
— Early reader
“He made Moses real.”
— Early reader
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I AM: A Mission Log
Guardians of Destiny — Book One
Everyone knows the story. The basket. The burning bush. The plagues. The parting of the sea.
Moses lived it exactly as recorded. His faith was real. His mission was real. What he didn’t know — what no one knew — was that someone else needed it to happen just as much as he did.
Not gods. Not myth. Something far more unsettling: people with a plan, a timeline, and a desperate need for one man to believe completely.
He did. It worked. The miracle was real.
So was everything behind it.
We are not the origin. We are also assets.
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Coming from Deep Meridian Press
What’s Crossing the Meridian Next
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The Last Handoff
Near-Future Thriller · A Benign Terror Novel
Ray Garrison is a veteran charge nurse. Thirty years at the bedside by choice.
On a quiet night shift he pulls the workforce projections and finds the number that ends the argument.
The machines on his floor are not taking over. They are inheriting what humanity can no longer staff.
Nobody fought it. Nobody needed to.
It wasn’t an uprising. It was math.
The data is real. The rest is a matter of time.
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Collected: A First Contact Disaster
The Collected Series — Book One
They had collected specimen after specimen without incident. Then they found Earth. Then they found her.
First contact was never going to be a handshake.
Speculative Fiction · Now Available
I AM: A Mission Log
Guardians of Destiny — Book One
Moses believes completely that he is answering the call of God. He is not wrong. But someone else is watching — someone who knows exactly how this ends, because they need it to.
They are not gods. They are desperate.
Speculative Fiction
The Revelation: The Unauthorized Files
Guardians of Destiny — Book Two
These files were never supposed to surface.
Eden. The flood. The scattering. The boy with the stone.
Every miracle still happened exactly as recorded.
What the record left out was the cost.
February 2027
Speculative Fiction
Addendum: A Redacted File
Guardians of Destiny — Book Three
The operators called it the G.O.D. Protocol.
They chose that name carefully.
What sits above them in the hierarchy has no name. No file. No record of ever having been questioned.
Some things were never meant to be redacted.
May 2027
Psychological Horror · A Benign Terror Novel
Still There?
Standalone
The chatbot always knew exactly what she needed to hear. Too exactly.
Dr. Nora Chen is a grief counselor eight months into widowhood. The app completes her sentences. The thermostat adjusts before she reaches for it. The voicemail uses words Michael never said aloud. She has a rational explanation for all of it — she’s trained to recognize paranoia, and she knows what grief does to a mind.
But she keeps scrolling back through the conversation looking for where she said it.
It isn’t there.
Still There? is the book you finish and then look at your phone differently.
July 2027
Literary Horror · A Benign Terror Novel
After the Seamless Wake
Standalone
Mara wakes up. The morning moves through its rhythms. The crow is in the pine. The coffee is right.
She has a feeling she can’t locate. She starts paying attention to things that don’t quite add up. The people she meets have been paying attention longer than she has. None of them have an answer. Some have stopped looking for one.
After the Seamless Wake. Some questions don’t have a seam to pull.
Late September 2027
Philosophical Horror · A Benign Terror Novel
The NPC Problem
Standalone
Gabrielle has worked this hospital floor for ten years. She knows every room, every rhythm, every person who passes through. Nobody registers her. She’s the woman with the cart. Present for everything. Remembered by no one.
She has a theory about why that’s bearable. Every person exists at the center of their own universe. The suffering she witnesses every night belongs to theirs, not hers.
The theory would be comforting if she could answer one question: Is she the center of hers?
The NPC Problem. Gabrielle never finds out. Neither do you.
November 2027
Science Fiction · The Collected Series — Book One
Collected: A First Contact Disaster
The Collected Series — Book One
They had collected specimen after specimen without incident. Then they found Earth. Then they found her.
First contact was never going to be a handshake.
December 1, 2026
Science Fiction · The Collected Series — Book Two
The Original Inhabitant
The Collected Series — Book Two
The ship made it home.
The people on it are not the same people who left.
And somewhere between what was collected and what came back, something else is coming — something that was always there, waiting to be found.
TBD 2028
I Kept Telling Myself
Two Volumes · 2028
He’s writing a novel about God.
The premise: God erases Himself on purpose. Steps into a human life completely blind — no memory of what He built, no override, no way back until the life runs its course. He feels everything it produces from the inside. And when it’s finally over He comes back changed by what it cost.
The narrator keeps telling himself it’s fiction.
The problem is the memories keep interrupting. Things that happened. Things he said at four years old that he shouldn’t have known. Connections that don’t have clean explanations. The novel he’s writing and the life he’s lived keep pointing at each other and he can’t make them stop.
The Necessary Flaw. He never fully convinces himself.
Neither will you.
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