alice after wonderland – The Infinite Starr

December 31, 2025

Welcome to Ordinary

Alice does not fall into this place. She arrives the way people do when they’ve followed every rule and still feel wrong. The entrance reads ORDINARY, the letters clean, helpful, impossible to argue with. At the door, they fit her with a jacket. Not to restrain her, they explain. To support her. It closes gently.…

The Mad Tea on Main Street

Alice was walking home when she passed the café. Home wasn’t really home yet. It was just the place she returned to when the city ran out of streets to wander. She had been drifting through the upside-down parts of town for weeks now, the places where storefronts stayed half-lit and conversations felt unfinished. She…

The Authority of Shallow Things

Alice had been out of Wonderland for weeks before the first hint of the Queen found her. She wasn’t in a palace or garden anymore. She was on a cracked city sidewalk at dusk, watching the light fold into shadows the way corners do where truth hides. The world wasn’t magical now. It was just…