liminal spaces
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Once upon a time, in a place that insisted it was sensible, there lived a creature who believed wishes were shortcuts. Not spells. Not contracts. Just little verbal hacks to skip the boring parts of becoming someone. This creature was funny in the accidental way. Always wishing loudly. Always surprised by the results. If there…
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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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Alice began to notice that certain things avoided her attention. Not physically.Existentially. Billboards that made sense until she tried to read them. Conversations that flowed until she listened. People whose faces blurred the moment she tried to remember their names. It wasn’t dissociation. It was selection. The world was choosing what could be seen. She…