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    The House of Untold Stories: 50 Unexpected Tales
    The House of Untold Stories: 50 Unexpected Tales
    The House of Untold Stories: 50 Unexpected Tales
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    The House of Untold Stories: 50 Unexpected Tales

    By Peter Chiykowski

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    In The House of Untold Stories, every page is a door, and every door leads to a new tale of heartbreak, triumph, horror, or imagination. Wander into an enchanted mansion of pocket universes and miniature tales, where each door leads to a micro-fiction story. With tales about anger thieves, a deadly pizza delivery service, haunted music boxes, and more, each room will take you on an unexpected journey.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateAug 31, 2021
    ISBN9781524874001
    The House of Untold Stories: 50 Unexpected Tales

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      The House of Untold Stories - Peter Chiykowski

      One day you are walking down a street you know well, and you see the House where nothing should be, standing across an overgrown field behind a drooping chain-link fence. Your curiosity gets the better of you. You approach, and the House seems so familiar, the way a stranger in a dream feels like an old friend you haven’t thought about in years.

      You wander in to find that the House is not so much a house as a convergence of places half-remembered, half-forgotten, or fully imagined. The dust motes dancing in the slanted sunlight of the hall remind you of the empty foyer of your childhood home the day your family moved out. The oaky musk of polished wood and yellowed paper reaches deep into the crowded cupboard of your mind, as if rummaging for a memory at the very back of your awareness, or perhaps trying to plant one there.

      The House is impossible . . . Its doors lead to stories, confessions, dreams, prayers, and worlds that never quite were. The hall closet opens to an apartment complex at the end of days. The pantry leads to a bunker on a planet humans will never discover. The walkway to the courtyard passes through the fantasy kingdom you imagined your bedroom to be when you were a child.

      Some say the House is an orphanage for fantasies we outgrow. Or a runaway colony for stories we meant to write. A labyrinth to contain nightmares we wish to forget and the dreams that give us too much hope to bear. A seed vault for myths in long hibernation.

      Whatever it is, there’s a reason the House called you here. Somewhere in its halls, a story is waiting for you. And whether you pluck it like a flower and knowingly carry it from the House, or whether the motion of your passing causes it to burst like a dandelion halo and scatter its seeds in the tangle of your mind, that story has chosen you as its bearer.

      So please, stay as long as you like. Wander long and free. Leave when you’re ready. But do not be surprised if the next time you return, one of the stories has moved on, and in its place a new story is sprouting, waiting for you to carry it out into the world.

      The young ones never believe me when I tell them what lighthouses were in the days before.

      They have never lived in a world where rain falls from the sky clean and drinkable. Where warm sunlight strokes your skin without tangling its mutating fingers in your DNA. Where ships sail across an ocean teeming with life, and not boiling with acid and the rage of a shattered planet.

      They have no concept of a time where lighthouses steered ships away from land.

      In the ruins of the world, they only know the beacons by their new meaning.

      A warning.

      Stay away from the water.

      I used to put up fake lost pet posters for mythical creatures, just to keep my neighborhood interesting.

      LOST BASILISK: ANSWERS TO BALTHAZAR.

      MISSING CHUPACABRA: $500 REWARD!

      ESCAPED GRIFFIN: CALL THIS NUMBER!

      Somebody just responded to my ad about the runaway phoenix, and now they’re on their way here with a reinforced steel cargo

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