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The Door in the Woods

The Door in the Woods

A Tale

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Mar 01, 2025
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There was a house at the edge of the woods, perched just beyond where the road ended. It wasn’t the kind of house that called attention to itself—no grand pillars or sprawling porches—just a place where things happened. A place where people lived and left and sometimes came back different.

The girl who grew up in that house knew how to read the air. She …

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