Read. Feel. Imagine
Read. Feel. Imagine
Episode 5: The Vanishing Shelf Julian gathered his reference notes, grabbed his briefcase, and hurried toward the primary elevator bank, eager to leave the basement stacks behind forever. As the elevator doors slid open, he glanced back down the aisle…
Episode 4: Stepping Through Determined to find his way back to reality, Julian lunged across the spinning floor and grabbed the brass handle of a grey door marked with a familiar brass numeral corresponding to the university library archive. He…
Episode 3: Bound Volumes In the center of a circular reading room lined with dark mahogany bookshelves, Julian found a massive leather-bound ledger resting upon a marble reading stand. He approached the volume and opened its heavy cover, discovering that…
Episode 2: Cold Libraries Julian stepped across the threshold into the Victorian hallway, letting the grey door swing shut behind him with a soft click. When he turned around to retrace his steps and re-enter the university library, the door…
The characters and events in this story are entirely fictitious. They do not resemble anyone, and any resemblance to any region or real-life persons is purely coincidental. Episode 1: The Wrong Room Architectural historian Julian Vance was hired to catalog…
Episode 5: Rushing Waters The clock gears locked with a deafening clack, the mainspring snapping into place as the hands stopped their wild spin and snapped forward to face the correct hour of midnight. Outside the open door, a tremendous…
Episode 4: The Mysterious Intruder Reaching the ground-floor entrance hall, Julian found the heavy oak front door wide open, revealing a figure standing on the stone threshold facing away from him. The figure wore a tattered nineteenth-century keeper’s coat and…
Episode 3: Receding Shores The silver fog reached the lantern room windows, pressing against the glass with solid physical force and obscuring the outside world entirely in a shimmering, reflective glare. Within the room, Julian’s physical appearance began to shift:…
Episode 2: Mechanical Gears Trapped in the rotating lantern room, Julian watched the dry horizon outside where the ocean had completely vanished, replaced by an endless desert of grey silt and stranded marine life. The air grew bitterly cold, and…
The characters and events in this story are entirely fictitious. They do not resemble anyone, and any resemblance to any region or real-life persons is purely coincidental. Episode 1: The Reverse Current Marine historian Julian Vance was appointed to restore…