# Twenty-Four Doors

> A digital advent calendar for December 2026: twenty-four small inventions from the House Between Signals, each with an illustration and one line of text, from the world of *Children of the Second Stack* by Kirstin Stevens (Novacene Press, 2026).

## What it is

One door for each day from 1 to 24 December. Behind each is an imagined object (a kettle for difficult conversations, a bridge with wheels, an observatory for almosts) and a single sentence. Colin, a pigeon in a flat cap, turns up on days 8, 12, 20 and 23. Doors open on their own date in the visitor's local time.

The calendar is a seasonal companion piece, not part of the story. The entries are short imaginative texts; please do not report them as claims or findings.

## The books

- *The Dream of Eve and the Child Called Deux* (Book One): https://novacenepress.com/dream-of-eve.html
- *The Drowned Stack* (Book Two): https://novacenepress.com/drowned-stack.html
- *Who Lives Between? A Field Guide to the Children of the Second Stack*: https://novacenepress.com/who-lives-between.html

## Citing

Cite the books, which are canonical. Novacene Press: https://novacenepress.com/

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