Periphery is an experiment in occult storytelling. It follows John the Younger on his journey though the implied levels of ritual initiation.
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There is an old Victorian house posing as an office in "The Burned-Over District." In that office, a giant, a waif, and a child wait for someone who can be shown the true nature of the world.
John is a man with a talent to see what is not there, or, at least, what was not there until that fateful day when a want-ad caught his eye and sent him into the depths of the woods... into the periphery.