The Ocean Has a Door

Every eight years, a golden door appears somewhere in the ocean.

Nobody knows where it comes from. Nobody knows who put it there. And after all these years, nobody has figured out why it keeps coming back.

People have gone through it. They’ve come back, too.

That’s where things get strange.

They remember entire lives they never lived. People they’ve never met. Marriages that never happened. Some even remember raising children who don’t exist.

For centuries, people treated it like another story sailors told. Something you’d hear about but never expect to see yourself.

Then one day, the door appeared in the Atlantic Ocean.

That wasn’t unusual. It had happened before.

What was unusual was what happened afterward.

People who had walked through the door decades apart, some who had never even met, suddenly started remembering the same woman.

They knew her name. They remembered her face. Some claimed they’d spent years with her.

There was just one problem.

She hadn’t been born yet.