The Shifting Doors
A family moves into a new house where doors begin shifting overnight. Soon, the front door opens into a hidden hallway filled with ruined versions of their own rooms and belongings—glimpses of futures they haven’t lived yet. As they search for a way out, they realize some doors don’t lead to the future at all. They lead to something waiting for them. Photo by
Mom wake up!
June?
The front door opens into a hallway
Stay in your room
Too late
The porch is gone
Eli tell me she’s joking
She isn’t
Don’t do this to me at 6 AM
I’m looking at it right now
There’s a light flickering down there
Nobody step outside
I only put one foot over the frame
ELI
The floorboards are ours
What does that even mean?
Same scratch by the shoe rack
And our umbrella stand is out there
That was in the hall closet last night
My closet moved too remember?
No signal on my phone now
Use the landline
Dead
Mine says no service too
Open the back door
It opens into the kitchen
Our kitchen?
Another one
There’s a family photo on the wall out here
Then why did somebody just close the front door from the other side?