Chapter 51: The Doorbell?

Chapter 51: The Doorbell?

(Binky Lemontwist, June 8th, 2012)

A guest stumbled through the portal into the courtyard and worked her way to the giant, ominous blue doors that seemed to lead to nowhere since she couldn’t see any of the outside walls of the House that her friend Jenny Everywhere had told her all about.71 All she could see was the thirty foot tall TARDIS-blue double doors, hundreds of seemingly floating windows that showed the wonders of the House, and a curious-looking, seemingly Japanese bell with a matching stone mallet at its side.

She walked up to the doors and bravely tried to knock since she needed a place to stay for the night after she had been knocked out and robbed of all her possession. This, of course, included her pair of ruby chopsticks, which a space marauder had kindly given her during the first trip she had taken to Mars.

The doors were too thick to be knocked on so she shrugged and picked up the stone mallet. She braced herself and gave a mighty swing against the metal bell. She jumped from the sound it made. It was a baby’s laughter.

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In the comments: Zxvasdh: “I suspect the House is a piece of the Kefahuchi Tract fallen to Earth.” The Kefahuchi Tract is an artefact from M. John Harrison’s 2002 award-winning science-fiction novel Light, described as “a singularity without an event horizon”. 103