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Until the Light Resolves
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $11.99
Publisher: J. V. Molenaar
Published: Aug 2 2026
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
A never-ending corridor. A commanding voice from nowhere. A memory he buried too deep to name.
He wakes in a room with no window, no door he remembers entering, and a light with no visible source. When he finally finds a way out, it opens onto a corridor with no beginning and no end.
He is not alone.
A voice speaks from nowhere. At first it is clinical, almost kind. It steadies his breathing, corrects his balance, recites his own history back to him like it is reading from a file. He tells himself it is a symptom. A hallucination. Anything but familiar.
But the corridor keeps rearranging itself around him, surfacing rooms he thought he had sealed away for good. And the voice, the longer it speaks, stops sounding quite so clinical. Stops sounding quite so much like a stranger at all.
Until the Light Resolves is a Literary psychological novella told through fractured, experimental typography that mirrors its protagonist's unraveling on the page itself, words that scatter, stall, and refuse to complete themselves, just as he does. This is not a haunted house. It is an architecture of self, and something has been waiting inside it for a very long time.
For readers of The Yellow Wallpaper, House of Leaves, The Raw Shark Texts, and anyone who has ever wondered what is still behind a door they thought they had sealed shut.
Content note: this novella addresses child abuse, domestic violence, and suicidal ideation. Reader discretion advised.
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