The Effect
Imagine you move into a room, your bedroom, where you’ll now be living. The room is covered in wallpaper, made up of hundreds of different, clustering scenes. At first, as your gaze drifts from one scene to the next, you think them beautiful. But then something stops you short. Something about this wallpaper is… strange. The same person, in fact, appears in every one of its scenes. And, with a chill prickling across your breastbone, you realise that person… is you. But then things …
The Effect
Imagine you move into a room, your bedroom, where you’ll now be living. The room is covered in wallpaper, made up of hundreds of different, clustering scenes. At first, as your gaze drifts from one scene to the next, you think them beautiful. But then something stops you short. Something about this wallpaper is… strange. The same person, in fact, appears in every one of its scenes. And, with a chill prickling across your breastbone, you realise that person… is you. But then things get even more unsettling, as you recognise that each of those printed wallpaper scenes in which you appear is eerily familiar. Each of those scenes from your life has occurred already, you have lived them. And the rest? The rest are yet to come. Your blood runs to ice, the realisation holding you cold by the roots of your hair. Do these disturbing scenes merely reflect your past, or do they also predict your future? And, furthermore, how can you stop them?
The Method
If you’d like to find out the method behind the mysterious wallpaper described in this episode, you’ll have to read Lora’s debut novel “The Woman in the Wallpaper”!
Links to buy the hardback and audiobook can be found at thewomaninthewallpaper.com
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