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Photographs recovered from the mysterious Zorovic Building in New York prior to its destruction in 1913, showing summonings, materializations, and other dark magic rituals which allegedly occurred in the building’s various rooms around the turn of the 20th century.

Legend goes that the Zorovic Building's foundation ran deep underground into a “soft place” - a “wound” in the fabric of spacetime where our dimension becomes unnaturally close to other realms; imperceptible to human senses but ripe, according to spiritualists, for channeling beings and magic from beyond.

Officially, however, so little is known about the building that historians classify its entire existence as urban folklore, as it does not appear in any historical records. But paranormal researchers and amateur sleuths believe records were altered and destroyed to protect the exact location where the building once stood, so its unique paranormal attributes could never again be exploited for the terrifying evils which once occurred there; or perhaps, more sinisterly, to conceal the secrets of whichever new building now stands on its plot… 

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NOTE: This alternate reality horror story is part of my NightmAIres narrative art series. NightmAIres are windows into other worlds and alternate histories, conceived/written by me and visualized with synthography and Photoshop.

Children of Irradiated Skies, part 2 (continued from part 1). Photographs of imprints from “mirror worlds” taken near American nuclear testing sites with CERN’s experimental ADAM (Adjacent-Dimension Atomic Mirror) quantum camera. These brief alternate realities are often referred to as “Quantum Shards.” The name was coined by Dr. Rosamund Volstof, head of CERN’s Adjacent-Dimension Research Laboratory, who has devoted her life’s work to advancing her late grandfather’s “brilliant but deeply problematic” work in cross-dimensional technology.

“A ‘mirror’ world suggests a flat, stable, accurate reflection,” Volstof explains, “but these reflections are as incomplete and unstable as what you might expect to catch in the glimmer of a thin shard of glass propelled through the air by an explosion.

“When I first joined CERN, the team was calling them ‘sparks’. The thinking at the time was they were quantum attempts to form new ‘mutant’ dimensions. But what we have found since is that their creation - and imminent destruction - is not a spark hoping to catch a flame, but rather a scream, released in agony, needing to cry out in all its fury for a moment before being freed to dissolve into the air.