A page of The Leaf With One Side, a gamebook. Pick a line at the bottom to go on, or start at the beginning.
Congress Avenue Ends at the Sea
It is a short walk. It is a very long walk. Congress Avenue runs south over the river and then, at the end, instead of the capitol, there is water. Gray. Tidal. Smelling of kelp and brake dust.
The streetlights keep going out into it on pilings.
You can see four things from here. A lit tower on a headland, turning. A trail going up a hill that is not on any map you own. A long low building with a green door and a sign that says CABINET. And a hedge, taller than the hedges in town, with a graveyard singing behind it, one flat note held.
A bus arrives and does not open its doors. It waits, the way a person waits to be asked something.
- Walk to the light on the headland.
- Climb the trail.
- Try the green door.
- Go toward the singing.
- Turn back up the avenue, to the block of doors.
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