Department ∅ · Floor Unlisted · Office B

The Liminal Bureau

Please take a seat · You will not be called

Now Serving

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Queue position: indeterminate

Bureau time

The hour has not advanced.

Only the second hand turns. This is not a malfunction.

Visitor Intake

Complete in ink · All fields optional · No reply is guaranteed

01Name, if any

02Date of last certainty

03Duration in this state

04Reason for arrival

05Describe the threshold you are currently crossing

06What, if anything, would you like to declare before proceeding?

Receipt of Intake

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Your form has been filed. No further action is required of you. No further action will, in all likelihood, be taken.

Notice Board

Posted — · No date visible

On the absence of the clerk

The clerk is not on break. The clerk is between cases. Please do not tap the glass.

Posted 14 months ago

Quarterly hours of operation

The Bureau is open during the interval between a question and its answer, and at no other time. Amendments pending.

Posted this morning · or last spring

Lost & found

One glove (left). A letter with the recipient's line torn away. A single ticket stub for a performance not yet scheduled. Please inquire within, though no one is within.

Undated

To the visitor who asked about the exit

The exit is not withheld. It is simply not, in this building, a room one arrives at.

While you wait

Observe the second hand. Note that when you look away, it appears to have moved further than you expected. This is expected.

Read the notices. They were written for someone, though not necessarily for you.

If you must leave

The door is where you left it. Whether it is the same door is a question the Bureau, in good conscience, does not answer.

You may close this window. The Bureau remains open, indefinitely, without you.

Correspondence

Letters may be addressed to:
The Archivist, c/o The Liminal Bureau, Threshold ∅.

Replies are issued in the form of a feeling upon waking, several weeks after posting.