Chapter
Chapters
Prologue — “That Night in the Fire”
Chapter One – “A Beautiful Scene”
Chapter Two – “Inheritance of Silence”
Chapter Three – “The Girl in the Photograph”
Chapter Four – “An Unquiet Frame”
Chapter Five – “Absence in Frame”
Chapter Six – “The Man in the Gallery”
Chapter Seven – “We Don’t Name the Dead”
Chapter Eight – “Curated Memories”
Uncatalogued Exhibit: Emeline
Chapter Nine – “The Girl in Glass”
Interlude – “What the Evidence Doesn’t Say”
Chapter Ten – “Negative Space”
Memory Fragment – “A Curator’s Confession”
Chapter Eleven – “Playback”
Interlude – “Blueprints of the Unseen”
Archive Fragment – “The Line Between Us”
Chapter Twelve – “File Not Found”
Interlude – “Officially Missing”
Chapter Thirteen – “West Wing, West Memory”
Chapter Fourteen – “He Who Signed in Silence”
Chapter Fifteen – “The Sketchbook of Her”
The Emeline Dossier
Chapter Sixteen – “The Living Gallery”
Westchester Psychiatric Center
Chapter Seventeen – “The Girl Behind the Glass”
Chapter Eighteen – “Alcestis”
Chapter Nineteen – “The Door Edward Never Meant to Open”
Chapter Twenty – “The Suicide That Wasn’t”
Chapter Twenty-One – “The Wall That Doesn’t Exist”
Chapter Twenty-Two – “I Signed the Walls”
Interlude – “The Missing Line”
Emotional Insert – “The Room of Forgotten Things”
Chapter Twenty-Three – “The Girl in the Drawing”
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Emeline
Edward’s Voice Recording
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Interlude — Detective Marlowe
Chapter Twenty-Nine
FLASHBACK: The Winter Blackout
Chapter 30 – The Girl in Red
Chapter 31 – The Echo in the Floorboards
Interlude – Entry Without a Name
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Interlude IV — The Forgotten Room
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Interlude — Before the Gallery
Interlude — What I Buried
Interlude — The Things I Remembered Too Late
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter forty-one
Chapter Forty-Two
Chapter Forty-Three- memory loop
Chapter Forty-Four
Chapter Forty-Five
Chapter Forty-Six
Chapter Forty-Seven
Chapter Forty-Eight
Chapter Forty-Nine -The Mirror Room
Chapter Fifty- The Surveillance Cut
Chapter Fifty-One— The Mirrors Remember
Chapter Fifty-Two—file seven
Chapter Fifty-Three—The canvas door
Chapter Fifty-Four— The Mirror Was Never Just Glass
Chapter Fifty-Five— Beneath the Glass
Chapter Fifty-Six —Interlude: The Archivist’s Final Entry
Chapter Fifty-Seven—Through the Mirror
Chapter Fifty-Eight— In Her Father’s Wake
Chapter Fifty-Nine— The Locked Door
Chapter Sixty Interlude—The Memory Loop
Chapter Sixty-One—The Erasure Log
Chapter Sixty-Two—The Locked Drawer
Chapter Sixty-Three—The Memory Loop
Chapter Sixty-Four—The Room She Wasn’t In
Chapter Sixty-Five—Interlude: The Missing Panel
Chapter Sixty-Six—Memory Loop
Chapter Sixty-Seven—The Observer
Chapter Sixty-Eight—The Loop Beneath My Skin
Chapter Sixty-Nine—The Absence He Left Me
Interlude
Chapter Seventy
Chapter Seventy-One
Chapter Seventy-Two
Chapter Seventy-Three
Chapter Seventy-Four
Chapter Seventy-Five
Chapter Seventy-Six
Chapter Seventy-Seven—The Protocol Vault
Interlude: Protocol E
Chapter seventy eight
Chapter seventy nine
Chapter eighty
Chapter eighty one
Chapter eighty two
Chapter eighty three
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Interlude – Echoes
Chapter Eighty-Seven
Chapter Eighty-Eight
Chapter Eighty-Nine
Chapter Ninety
Chapter Ninety-One
Chapter Ninety-Two
Chapter Ninety-Three
Chapter Ninety-Four
Chapter Ninety-Five
Chapter Ninety-Six
Chapter Ninety-Seven
Chapter Ninety-Eight
Chapter Ninety-Nine
Chapter One Hundred
Chapter One Hundred and One
Chapter One Hundred and Two
Chapter One Hundred and Three
Chapter One Hundred and Five
Chapter One Hundred and Six
Chapter one hundred and seven
Chapter one hundred and eight
Chapter one hundred and nine
Chapter one hundred and ten
Chapter one hundred and eleven
Chapter one hundred and twelve
Chapter one hundred and thirteen
Chapter one hundred and fourteen
Chapter one hundred and fifteen
Chapter one hundred and sixteen
Chapter one hundred and seventeen
Chapter one hundred and eighteen
Chapter one hundred and nineteen
Chapter one hundred and twenty
Epilogue
Curator’s Note
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Chapter One Hundred and Three
Marlowe
Sleep eludes me these days. It’s not the ordinary kind of restlessness; it’s the bone-deep refusal of my mind to let go, as though if I close my eyes long enough, the whole case will collapse into a void of erasure.
I sit at my desk, the case files spread like flayed skin across the su...