Chapter 37
Emeline
I smelled turpentine before I saw him.
It wasn’t out of place—Papa always kept a jar in the old studio upstairs, where the light was best and the past hung thick as varnish. But this smell was sharp. Recent. Like something had been opened again.
Like something was being painted… or er...
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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
52. Chapter 35
53. Chapter 36
54. Interlude — Before the Gallery
55. Interlude — What I Buried
56. Interlude — The Things I Remembered Too Late
57. Chapter 37
58. Chapter 38
59. Chapter 39
60. Chapter 40
61. Chapter forty-one
62. Chapter Forty-Two
63. Chapter Forty-Three- memory loop
64. Chapter Forty-Four
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