The House No One Sees
911. Where is your emergency?
Penelope Ross isn’t sure how to answer this. She has always felt like a minor character in her mother’s fairytale, until the night of her seventeenth birthday when she is forced to become the protagonist in her own. After a text from her estranged mother rips her away from a fun-filled night with friends, Penny is forced into a kaleidoscope of memories locked inside the dark labyrinth of her childhood home.
Welcome home, Little Doll.
The house has missed her, but the house is tricky. With its slanting floors, broken windows, and peeling wallpaper, Penny and the house have too much in common. Forced to confront her mother’s opioid addiction to mend her fractured story, Penny wanders between present and past—prose and verse—unsure if the house is guiding her out or leading her further into its maze.
You can save her.
The house lies. There is no saving her mother. But when Penny draws closer to her present, she realizes the house isn’t referring to her mother; it’s referring to her. And as Penny walks through herself to find herself, she isn’t sure she has the courage to free the light she trapped inside.
The House No One Sees = Penelope’s Tower
Artwork by Märī