The door didn’t open.
It simply ceased to be.
One moment it was wood and iron,69Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnURvB2Z8Xk
the next, a hole in the world through which meaning spilled sideways.
The thing that entered wasn’t a guest.69Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhTSPF0UMhq
It wasn’t a thing.
It was hunger braided with memory.69Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEYRpJciFVG
Shape wrapped in concept.69Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuTMofCvq8l
Its presence cracked the edges of the bottles, though they made no sound.
Even the fire shrank.69Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOj7XL9lBrt
Not in fear.69Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOUdfINHiKI
But in reverence.
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It arrived in all directions at once.
There was no voice.69Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwTLTmAioEq
No words.
But I understood:
“You collect them.69Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtdnNnOOr7B
You keep what would be forgotten.69Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLfuN1i818L
You hoard the echoes.69Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡea0vlvOv72
Why?”
I didn’t answer with my mouth.
I thought of every guest.
The broken, the joyful, the unfinished.69Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLeIPH21HXY
The ones who stayed. The ones who left half-healed.69Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsNMGkOpgOn
The ones no one else remembered.
I thought of the ledger.
I thought of the fire.
And I thought of the chair that is always empty but never alone.
The thing paused.
Or maybe the universe did.
Then, without form, it offered something.
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A glyph.69Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4pVqwi4rNG
A flavor that tasted like entropy and lullabies.
I did not drink it.
I bowed.
And I said:
“Not everything is meant to vanish.”
It left through the ceiling.
The door was back. Whole again. But warmer.
The tavern has not shifted since.
But the stars over the window blinked a little slower that night.
And I brewed a drink I could not name.
I have not served it.
Yet.
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