We often underestimate the stories that live in our hearts. Stories that square our truth to feelings unchanged by time. We may reject them in fear of their pain — denying, rather than holding, and concealing, rather than revealing — hoping that they fade or vanish entirely. But such artifacts do not easily faint; instead, they grow in perpetual search for a shadow to call home.
They persist.
Unadmitted and undirected.
Insistent, yet lost.
– Amittai
Hypothesis
All the worlds that almost were matter just as much as the world we’re in.
Corollary
These hidden worlds cause us great pain.
– Maniac, Season 1, Episode 1 (The Chosen One!)