Holographic Illusion

Silhouette in the Snow
reading time: 8 minutes

The lodge smelled of cedar smoke and old wool, a ghost of summers past trapped in the timber beams. I’d come to the Berghaus seeking silence—three days alone to finish the manuscript my editor had been threatening me about for months. The alpine retreat promised nothing but snow, solitude, and a fireplace older than my grandfather.

I found two of those things.