The Reading Room

The Reading Room

A serialized cliffhanger story, one episode at a time.

All Episodes

Catch up on every episode so far.

  1. Chapter 1/Episode 1: The Last House on Quarry Road
    After Years Away, A Daughter Comes Home To Empty A House
  2. Chapter 1/Episode 2: The Piece That Does Not Get Sold
    A grandmother's strange rule about one strip of land.
  3. Chapter 1/Episode 3: The Man Half a Mile Up the Road
    The Neighbor Who Knew Her Grandmother Before The Family Did
  4. Chapter 1/Episode 4: Throw It Out, Don't Look
    Why Does Her Mother Want These Boxes Thrown Out Unopened?
  5. Chapter 1/Episode 5: The Wardrobe With a Hollow Back
    She Knocked On The Wardrobe And It Answered Wrong
  6. Chapter 1/Episode 6: Moving Day
    The Day They Carried The Last Of Her Life Out The Door
  7. Chapter 1/Episode 7: What Was Behind the Cedar Panel
    Alone In The Empty House, She Finally Lifts The Panel
  8. Chapter 1/Episode 8: The Gown and the Photograph
    Inside The Tin, A Tiny Gown And A Face She Knows
  9. Chapter 1/Episode 9: A Name Nobody Will Say
    She Brings The Photograph To Her Mother And Gets A Door Slammed
  10. Chapter 1/Episode 10: The Child She Buried by the Road
    At Last, Her Grandmother Speaks The Name She Hid For A Lifetime
  11. Chapter 2/Episode 1: The Camp Stefania Never Spoke Of
    After A Lifetime Of Silence, A Place Has A Name
  12. Chapter 2/Episode 2: The Picture Lands on the Table
    Her Mother Has To See The Photograph Sooner Or Later
  13. Chapter 2/Episode 3: The Margin of the Old Book
    In The Parish Archive, A Note Nobody Has Read In Decades
  14. Chapter 2/Episode 4: The Cold Little House at the End of the Road
    November 1948: A Girl, A Baby, A Stranger's Front Door
  15. Chapter 2/Episode 5: The Boy with the Firewood
    A Stranger Brings Wood To The Door And Will Not Look Away
  16. Chapter 2/Episode 6: The Note Father Stachura Read
    The Old Priest's Note Sends Lila Looking Somewhere Else
  17. Chapter 2/Episode 7: That Long Night Before Christmas
    December 1948: A Fever That Will Not Break
  18. Chapter 2/Episode 8: The Iron Ground at the Bend in the Road
    He Came In The Morning And Did Not Ask A Single Question
  19. Chapter 2/Episode 9: What Father Bryla Did Not Write Down
    She Came To Confess And He Carried It Seventy-Eight Years
  20. Chapter 2/Episode 10: The Photograph He Had Kept All Those Years
    A Priest, A Grandmother, A Granddaughter, In One Small Room
  21. Chapter 3/Episode 1: That Figure He Saw on the Road
    There Was Another Night, Another Death, On This Same Road
  22. Chapter 3/Episode 2: The Summer Rose Was Fifteen
    Her Mother Stops Pretending The Quarry Was Just A Place
  23. Chapter 3/Episode 3: The Day They Agreed to Dig
    Five People In One Room Choose A Morning To Open The Ground
  24. Chapter 3/Episode 4: The Box at the Bend in the Road
    At Dawn, A Wooden Box Comes Up Out Of Iron Ground
  25. Chapter 3/Episode 5: She Carried That Letter in Her Heart Since ’48
    At The Graveside, Her Grandmother Reads One More Page
  26. Chapter 4/Episode 1: Bells Chime His Name
    A Funeral Mass, A Small New Stone, His Name Spoken at Last
  27. Chapter 4/Episode 2: It's Only A Road
    The Morning After, A Family Sits Down To One Warm Meal