Author Archives: Nick

As during your previous ascent, you soon start losing your sense of time. Several other doors seem to go by behind you as you climb. However, scaling the ladder is effortless, as though you are buoyed by a radiant power … Continue reading →

The world outside is now awash in silver, and feeling the need to see the source, you turn your eyes upwards seeking for the moon. The clouds are spilling across the sky, revealing the fathomless night behind them, but the … Continue reading →

Fascinated, you observe the ship for some time. Lost in the starry black above and below, it’s heaving closer to the shore to the left. But although the binoculars lend a fiction of closeness, the galleon is still far shore, … Continue reading →

You rise to your feet and close the trapdoor. This house is really just a room with four walls. The wall closest to you has an unglazed window. Circling the central bole clockwise, you learn that the only other window, … Continue reading →

The meadow is surrounded by trees. But in the middle there stands a lone oak, its thick trunk like a tower shooting up into the sky, and its lower boughs laden with deep-green leaves and bending softly down. You reach … Continue reading →