The Copley Road

<p><strong>No one remembers the last time the sky held color. They say Merribell has always been gray. That color is a myth a child's story a dream you forget when you wake.</strong></p><p>When young Elio dares to paint the sky something ancient stirs-and the world begins to fracture.</p><p>Shadows stretch where they shouldn't. Reflections whisper. Children vanish and return... different. In a village sealed in silence and soot three figures become entwined: a boy who broke the sky a girl who sees what isn't there and a man who may be both mentor and monster. As reality begins to slip their fates spiral. And in the distance along a road some claim was never there a man waits-smiling watching remembering too much.</p><p><em>The Copley Road</em> is a fable for those who've outgrown fables. A meditation on grief memory magic and creation wrapped in the uncanny hush of a dream half-recalled. It is a story not just about color returning but what must be lost when it does.</p><p><strong>Step carefully. Some paths lead home. Others never end.</strong></p><p><br> </p>