gothic alice

  • 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.…

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  • 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…

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