To one in Paradise

"From the past, darkly."





























Dani Cade waits for the elevator at the "Colina Building"

he observes the quartz numerals of his Seiko with impatience, with the acid aftertaste of a cheeseburger still caught between his throat and his blue necktie
blue like California

both silver plated doors get open like an invitation to the world of the dream[s], as he enters the empty cabinet, which is ample, and is profound.



The doors get closed robotically behind his back, while Cade observes his standing figure on the big mirror of the elevator, suitcase in hand... the ascending box begins its voyage:

out, on the blue sidewalks of L.A, the vertical sun of June at noon illuminates the oranges of the girls in tight T-shirts.




The interior of the lift smells like sole of brand new shoes, while some unidentified Adult Oriented Rock song flows from hidden speakers, located somewhere in the roof of the cabinet:

unexpectedly, after 5 long and strange minutes of ascent, the elevator stops suddenly at the 13th floor: the doors get open. The music stops




Confused, Cade gets out of the lif, he clearly pushed the "14" on the control panel


the corridor of the floor is obscure and long, Cade used to visit this building twice or thrice a week

something in his mind is wondering about the 13th floor... there's something in particular that he can't recall:

Cade walks by the corridor of the floor toward the stairs, where he instinctively knows that they are

no stairs are found at the floor.



When he realizes that it's only possible to access this floor by elevator, a second thought, as perplexing as the first, or more, assaults his mind: he finally recalls that the Colina Building hasn't any 13th floor, which has been omitted for superstitious reasons.


Amazed and disorented, Dani Cade starts walking through the kilometric hall, which has many doors

all the doors of the floor have the number 13 on them with a letter added to the number: "13a", "13b", "13c".


There's one letter omitted, though: the "13n"

Cade realizes that "N" corresponds to "14" when a violent slam is heard from a distant door, he turns his back suddenly to see, but there is nothing there, but closed doors.


Prey of considerable distress Dani Cade opens a random door all of a sudden:


a new corridor appears in front of his eyes, identical to the main corridor of the floor

Cade runs to the next door and opens it: the same corridor appears again

and again behind the next door, and again behind the next one, and over and over again with every new door that he opens.





Prey of hysterical nervousness, Cade trespasses one of the doors, and walks through the corridor

the corridor has many doors, and every door has the number 13, with an added letter to it, except the "N".



Submersed into the deepest amazement, Dani Cade opens one random door of this new corridor, and stays observing


behind the door, a new corridor is seen by his eyes, an exact duplicate of the former ones.



Abandoned to the desperation, Cade opens door after door, entering random corridors through random doors, which are all exactly the same

the same, understand? They are all the same! AH HA HA HA!


THE SAME! THE SAME! AH! AH!




























As Cade -with his eyeballs out of the orbirts- enters through a new door, which unavoidably flows into a new corridor, which unavoidably flows into a new door, other eyes, animal or not, observe a man walking through a corridor, from a painting, hanged somewhere at the 14th floor.