The Three Houses

One press, three optics.

Each house corresponds to a tense of perception — past, present, future — and to the form most native to it.

House I
R
Light returning unchanged.
House I · The Past

Reflection

Nonfiction | The Past

What happened.

What was witnessed.

What has been recorded.

Reflection is light returning unchanged.

House II
R
Voice as prism.
House II · The Present

Refraction

Poetry | The Present

Language bending through feeling.

Voice as prism.

Meaning felt rather than fixed.

Refraction is the present, bent into form.

House III
D
Possibility multiplying.
House III · The Future

Diffraction

Fiction | The Future

Possibility multiplying.

Narrative branching.

Meaning expanding through choice.

Diffraction is the future, rehearsed.