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