The Palimpsest Gallows

Narrative Dissolution Tower

A skeletal spire of blackened iron and warped glass, The Palimpsest Gallows looms over Ephemera Row like a question mark. Its hollow ribs echo with the whispers of half-erased stories, their voices fraying into static as they ascend. The air hums with the ozone tang of dissolving ink, and the glass panels—etched with the ghostly afterimages of faces—cast prismatic stains on the cobbles below. At dawn, the tower’s shadow writes itself across the district in lines of vanishing script. What unsettl...

Located in The Metamorphosis of Memory.