The Agony of Anna

The Agony of AnnaAnna begins hearing breathing behind the walls of her decaying boarding house-soft at first, then unmistakably alive. Something is watching her from the other side of reality, something that knows her name.When a black key appears in her room, Anna discovers a hidden door that should not exist. Beyond it lies an impossible corridor of endless black doors, each one containing fragments of lives she never lived... and versions of herself that remember things she has forgotten.As the boundaries of her world collapse, Anna is drawn into a vast, sentient structure built to contain something ancient-something once called friend, now called catastrophe. A being older than stars, imprisoned not by force, but by love, memory, and a promise that was never meant to last forever.But the prison is failing.And Anna was never just a visitor to it.She was part of its architecture.Now she must choose between waking into the fragile reality she once knew, or remaining within a collapsing dream that still contains the only being that ever truly knew her-waiting in the dark, remembering her promise.A cosmic horror story of identity, grief, and impossible love, The Agony of Anna blurs the line between dream and reality, prisoner and warden, salvation and abandonment.Some doors don't lock what's inside.They lock what's outside.

Pages: 141, Paperback, Independently published