Not A Toll. A Distraction.
A knock came from the hallway. Two beats. Pause. One beat.
“Not the pattern we learned,” Lila mumbled, instantly awake without admitting it.
Morgan swung her legs to the floor and moved to the peephole. “Old woman,” she whispered. “No uniform. Carrying a grocery sack.”
Harper’s stomach went cold....
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Chapters
1. The Wrong House
2. The Shadowed Door
3. The Echo Parents
4. The Knock Between Worlds
5. The Basement Descent
6. The Chalk Mark Six
7. The Knock That Waited
8. The Binder of Sanity
9. Containment Protocols
10. Be Brave, Bring Donuts
11. The House Held Its Breath
12. The Echo of Dust
13. The Knock That Lingers
14. Patterns in the Silence
15. The Bell and the Wild Card
16. Salt. Chalk. Thread.
17. Echoes in the Basement
18. Six Steps Down
19. No Invitations
20. Sing Back Once
21. Borrow from Stories
22. Props for a Polite House
23. Bell, Map, Weather
24. The Chalk That Moved
25. It’s Spreading
26. Not the Only Door
27. A New Room
28. Chalk Migration
29. The Bell in the Bedroom
30. Follow the Water
31. Panic in the Rafters
32. Frayed Morning
33. Gathering Stones
34. East & South
35. West & North
36. The Blessing & Aftermath
37. Residual Quiet
38. The Fork’s Memory
39. The Crack in the Hall
40. The House Pretends No More Episode 1
41. The House Pretends No More Episode 2
42. The House Subtracts
43. Eyes Off-Camera
44. The Star in Soot
45. Masks Sweat
46. The Splintered Gift
47. Marks That Do Not Fade
48. Field Notes in Reverse
49. When the Walls Answer Back
50. Theories in Ash
51. The Book That Waited on the Porch
52. Lila's Coin
53. Betty's Diner
54. If a Bird Calls Twice
55. Dreams Spill Sideways
56. Not All Books Have People
57. Don't Stop For Walkers After Dark
58. Step Lies
59. The Second Call
60. Don’t Answer Questions You Weren’t Asked Out Loud
61. Gossip Is A Prayer With Bad Aim
62. Some Roads Don't Like To Be Remembered
63. Tell Me A Story
64. Direct. Efficient. Logical.
65. Church With No Cross
66. The Right Turn Is A Question
67. Feed The Loop
68. Voices Are Next
69. Don't Tell the Road the Time
70. The Road Borrows Voices
71. Manipulation Is Still Manipulation
72. Expect Delays
73. Out Loud
74. If Asked the Hour - Lie
75. It Knows My Name
76. Not A Toll. A Distraction.
77. Air Grows Heavy In Drowned Places
78. We Don't Carry Water Into The Room
79. Count With Us
80. Choose Your Own Math
81. Town With A Name It Wont Keep
82. Order The Pie
83. Roll Call
84. June. Atlas. Holloway.
85. Math We Can Stand Behind
86. Dog Bite. Map Cut. Library Bruise. Say The Wins, Too.
87. Rehabilitation
88. It Wants To Keep You
89. Mercy
90. Bring Your Own Facts
91. Maps That Work Without Rulers
92. Road's Counting Today
93. Eastbound Still?
94. That Mercy Isn't A Cheat Code
95. Every Eighth Yard Holds A Child In Red
96. I Shut Up And It kept Singing Anyway
97. Poles Stop Counting In A Few Miles
98. Tomorrow?
99. We Don't Answer Back Anymore
100. Counting Protocols
101. Thats Not How Echoes Work
102. It's Already Keeping Score
103. Then We Count
104. Clever Has Patience
105. It Escalates Into Names
106. Count
107. Don't Narrate For It
108. The Wall Waits With Her
109. The Room Remains Itself
110. It's A Ledger, Not A Poem
111. But It Can't Author Us
112. The Binder Is A Tool, Not A Judge
113. Onward
114. A Skipping Rhyme Begins
115. Debt Contested
116. Three—One—Three—One
117. Every Movement Is A Cost Center
118. Tallies Are Not binding Unless Acknowledged
119. It's A Forger
120. Between Persons. Not On Stone.
121. The Room Flinches
122. Frame It Before It Frames You
123. First True One
124. You Wanted Law, You'll Have Mine
125. Heart, Rules, Intuition
126. No Writing On Her
127. Silence Arrived With Teeth
128. Say Something
129. It Breathed
130. That's A Terrible Plan
131. Everything Scares Me
132. Then We Move
133. It wants Jurisdiction
134. Salt. Coffee. Bathrooms.
135. The Graphite Stopped Moving
136. The Venn Diagram The Book Had Drawn
137. Don't Breathe When I Breathe
138. Today You Write Yourself
139. Wake Me If It Breathes
140. Useful Isn't The Same As Worthy
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