The following is part of my short short 'Mise en Abyme (A Metafiction)'. For an explanation, read the post here. Please do not comment on this entry, unless you are posting a fragment of the story in question. I will erase (or transfer elsewhere) all comments on this post. If you have a comment to make, rather than a fragment of the story to add, please make it here. Thank you very much. I am also trying this experiment, here. Now, here is a fragment of the story to start you off:
19) This study was a serious, almost interstellar place. Indeed, when he looked at the dark wallpaper, like the habitual ink cross-hatching of an obsessive draughtsman, he seemed to see stars in a night sky devoid of any planet called Home.
Robin Davies writes:32) Venn could not remember writing this, but now that he read it, he was certain he had thought it, if not in the past, then possibly at some point in the future. In any case, it also seemed to provide a perfect explanation for what was happening on the page, since the text was rising and sinking like staircases between the floors of shifting rooms.
Anonymous writes:
Hello Quentin, (hope I’m doing this right)35) We are the Sideways People. Your comments have been received and read with interest. Expect instructions soon.No sooner had he read this message than he heard the clatter of his letterbox. Waiting for him on the floor in the hall was a single letter, on the front of which was written “For the attention of Venn”. Holding this object at its edges, he took it into his study, sat down, and stared at it for some considerable time before breaking the seal and opening it.