The Red Door and Other Stories from The Waystation (The Life of The Waystation)

Three quiet stories of a place that refuses to turn anyone away.

The Red Door and Other Stories from The Waystation is a short story collection set in the world of The Soul of the Stacks, centered on a place that exists to be found—often by people who didn’t realize they needed it.

In The Red Door, the Waystation stands quietly between Keepers until a caretaker makes one simple, defiant change that reshapes what the threshold means. In Sir Chompengton and the Case of the Misplaced Midnight, time itself goes sideways, trapping a customer in a repeating moment—and forcing the Waystation’s residents to hunt down the stolen hour of Midnight before the building forgets what comes next.

And in A Waystation Christmas, a traveler is forced to stop by snow on Christmas night and discovers that “keeping watch” was never meant to happen in a church. Sometimes the holiest vigil is simply staying awake in the dark, in the right place, with the fire lit and the door unbarred.

Includes an excerpt from The Soul of the Stacks.