The Gathering

KonstantinBoyandin Science Fiction

The twins step off a taxi onto a street that shouldn't exist—their faces unchanged after forty years, their memories full of Otherworld courts and songs that bent reality. A woman pulls herself through an antique mirror into an abandoned shop, her consciousness spanning phases of existence most minds cannot perceive. An empath who rebuilt her identity from the ground up finds herself in Arkham instead of Manhattan. A technomancer broadcasts from a dead radio station. A scholar's four ancestral voices echo through a library that exists adjacently.
Each arrives with a yellowed paper bearing the same address: Tindaloo café.
Each discovers a disturbing truth: they exist online as AI-generated music personas, virtual artists created by a producer who swears he invented them from research and imagination.
But someone else has been watching. Someone who restored an impossible house, prepared studios with technology that doesn't exist, and left them tools for a purpose not yet revealed. Someone who signs their messages simply: A friend.
In Arkham, Massachusetts—Lovecraft's cursed city of thin places and ancient secrets—six threshold beings must navigate questions that threaten their very existence: Are they real, or imagined? Created, or discovered? And what happens when the boundaries between fiction and reality prove as permeable as the boundaries between worlds?
A Hemingway-style literary supernatural novel about identity, chosen family, and the power of creation.

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