The Far Side of the Door: A Waking Dream in Seventeen Doors

You have walked past this door your whole life. Tonight, it opens. Take a breath. Notice the weight of the book in your hands, the quiet of the room around you — and the ordinary door, just a few paces away, that has always been there. Then the wood begins to soften. The grain swirls like ink. And the floor beneath you gives way to soft moss and a sky the colour of violet dusk. The Far Side of the Door is not a story you read. It's one you step into. Written entirely in the second person and shaped, line by line, with the language of waking dreams, it draws you across the threshold and keeps you there — present, unhurried, and wide awake inside another world. Beyond the door waits a luminous, half-familiar land, and a journey told in seventeen thresholds. At each one, someone is waiting — and each of them hands you back a piece of yourself you set down long ago and forgot you were missing. On the far side of the door, you will: • walk a road through silver woods beneath a sky that hum meet the keepers of light, of memory, of your own unspoken voice cross a cold river, a quiet wood, and the grey place where everything is gently asked to stop and discover that the real journey was never away from yourself, but home to it A strange, immersive portal-fantasy journey told in the second person — for anyone who wants to disappear into a dreamlike world and come back changed. Visionary fantasy with the pull of a waking dream and the heart of a fable. The door has never once been locked. You only ever had to step through. Step through.