Chapter 31 – The Echo in the Floorboards
Detective Marlowe – First Person POV
I’ve stopped trusting silence.
There was a time I found it comforting — in the late hours, when the station emptied and the ticking of the wall clock became my only company. But Langford House had ruined that. Its silence wasn’t absence — it was presence. A...
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Chapters
1. Prologue — “That Night in the Fire”
2. Chapter One – “A Beautiful Scene”
3. Chapter Two – “Inheritance of Silence”
4. Chapter Three – “The Girl in the Photograph”
5. Chapter Four – “An Unquiet Frame”
6. Chapter Five – “Absence in Frame”
7. Chapter Six – “The Man in the Gallery”
8. Chapter Seven – “We Don’t Name the Dead”
9. Chapter Eight – “Curated Memories”
10. Uncatalogued Exhibit: Emeline
11. Chapter Nine – “The Girl in Glass”
12. Interlude – “What the Evidence Doesn’t Say”
13. Chapter Ten – “Negative Space”
14. Memory Fragment – “A Curator’s Confession”
15. Chapter Eleven – “Playback”
16. Interlude – “Blueprints of the Unseen”
17. Archive Fragment – “The Line Between Us”
18. Chapter Twelve – “File Not Found”
19. Interlude – “Officially Missing”
20. Chapter Thirteen – “West Wing, West Memory”
21. Chapter Fourteen – “He Who Signed in Silence”
22. Chapter Fifteen – “The Sketchbook of Her”
23. The Emeline Dossier
24. Chapter Sixteen – “The Living Gallery”
25. Westchester Psychiatric Center
26. Chapter Seventeen – “The Girl Behind the Glass”
27. Chapter Eighteen – “Alcestis”
28. Chapter Nineteen – “The Door Edward Never Meant to Open”
29. Chapter Twenty – “The Suicide That Wasn’t”
30. Chapter Twenty-One – “The Wall That Doesn’t Exist”
31. Chapter Twenty-Two – “I Signed the Walls”
32. Interlude – “The Missing Line”
33. Emotional Insert – “The Room of Forgotten Things”
34. Chapter Twenty-Three – “The Girl in the Drawing”
35. Chapter Twenty-Four
36. Chapter Twenty-Five
37. Chapter Twenty-Six
38. Chapter Twenty-Seven
39. Emeline
40. Edward’s Voice Recording
41. Chapter Twenty-Eight
42. Interlude — Detective Marlowe
43. Chapter Twenty-Nine
44. FLASHBACK: The Winter Blackout
45. Chapter 30 – The Girl in Red
46. Chapter 31 – The Echo in the Floorboards
47. Interlude – Entry Without a Name
48. Chapter 32
49. Chapter 33
50. Chapter 34
51. Interlude IV — The Forgotten Room
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