Interminable Rooms Novels & Stories

“I want to stand in Room 14 with you. Before any of the future starts.” “Thursday,” I said. “Thursday,” We walked toward the tube station. My phone buzzed. I looked at it. An email. Sender- Blackwood Institute Alumni and Community Office. Subject line, Room 14: Scheduled Refurbishment- December. I stopped walking. Gabriel looked at me. I showed him the screen. He read it. Room 14 was being refurbished in December. After December it would not be the room it had been. We kept walking. And somewhere in New England a room was waiting to be dismantled.

Well, we would see how long this silent treatment lasted if that was the game he wanted to play! This corridor had four large double-doored rooms gracing the never-ending hallway: mine, the second guest room, and two others. Pushing the third door open, my nose wrinkled as the heavy scent of sweat and testosterone filled the air. Switching a light on, I sighed, seeing it was a fully stocked gym. Everything a gym rat could need, including the mirror to stare at himself in for hours on end! Leaving the door open, I grinned, hearing a huff as the door closed again.

She rushed over and yanked the quilt out of my arms. "No! You can't leave!" she exclaimed. "Why not? Does she owe you money or something?" asked my new roommate, Serena Zander. She was a nice girl with her hair in a high ponytail. Sia was flushed red, but she could not explain herself. She scowled and blocked the exit in the end, she said, "No, that's not it… I don't care. You're not allowed to leave!" Serena did not understand, but I knew exactly what Sia was thinking.

The room recalculates its own dimensions. Shortens its span by 3%. Raises its vertical line. Delays door closure by 2.1s. No template matches this. No model trained it. And the system writes: :: STRUCTURAL SET COMPLETE COMMENT: SHE WAS NEVER IN THE DESIGN. BUT THE ROOM FINALLY FEELS LIKE IT COULD KEEP HER HERE WITHOUT BREAKING HER PACE. Eden eventually enters the corridor adjacent to A214. She doesn’t notice the room yet. But the air carries her rhythm forward.

" We don't open the house twice in the same place, I don't know if Lino told you this, we never repeat the same place two days in a row and today we are here. Today we are here, tomorrow we might be on the opposite side of town or in another neighborhood or condominium and to get in, you must have the password that changes every three days and without it, you will not be served. But let's not make them waste any more time, shall we? There are four environments that you can enjoy in our building, we will give you two keys so that you can enjoy two of our attractions, I think I can call them that, the other two, one you have already seen at the entrance, the common room, where you can be total

"But don't you ever bring them into our room again." I jabbed a finger toward the door, my patience hanging by a thread. "Now tell your little fuckmate to get the hell out before I completely lose my temper," I shouted. As though hell itself had been unleashed, they scrambled out of the room one after another, leaving only Raihan and me behind in the suffocating silence.

I nodded while I walked behind the girl , my head was spinning in so many directions , I didn’t know if I wanted to fight it , I just didn’t know if I could fight it . Walking through the corridor , I could see the many rooms . This is one of the places that you should never go to , that is the Alpha chambers and it’s off limits to everyone and most especially you , you cannot go in there no no account . So if you don’t have any more questions to ask then that is all that you need to know and this is your room now . I turned and was standing in front of the most gigantic room that I have ever seen . To the well brown decorated room to heaps of clothes and then the shoe rack and then the book

I say before sticking out my tongue. “We don’t need to leave this room, Little Birdie.” “That’s a lie,” I fire back. “Yes we do, Echo. At some point they’ll want the room back. Someone else will be booked in. I learned how this place works, remember? Rooms are rented by the hour or the night, not indefinitely.” He just watches me, eyes glittering. “Well,” he drawls, “that would be true if it was a public room. But it isn’t.”

No signal in the rooms? No data on the top floor?