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“I didn’t write this,” she said.

Dr. Elara Venn had spent fifteen years searching for a ghost. Not a spirit of flesh and bone, but a book: Building Imaginary Worlds: The Theory and History of Subcreation . She had first seen it cited in a crumbling footnote of a 1982 monograph on William Blake. The reference was tantalizing: “Venn, C. (1977). Building Imaginary Worlds . Oxford: Clarendon Press.” “I didn’t write this,” she said

The real building had only just begun.

She paid for the book with a credit card that, she would later discover, no longer worked in any country on Earth. But that was fine. She wasn’t planning to go home. She had a new world to build—and for the first time, she understood that the theory and the history were just the scaffolding. Not a spirit of flesh and bone, but

Elara closed the book. The title on the spine had changed. Now it read: The Unfinished Atlas of Elara Venn. (1977)

“What is this?” she breathed.

Her own name.