Lost and Found at the Hotel Gloaming

Storyfeather

A guest at an extravagant hotel gets lost and stumbles upon a strange secret.

Genre: Mystery, Fantasy

Excerpt: I noticed the magician when he slipped in behind the last person to enter the golden-walled elevator, and I sucked in a breath. I held it, half-subconsciously, as if it would make me invisible to him. It did not. I started feeling thudding of my heart as soon as he started turning to people, one at a time, handing them scraps of paper, touching their hands. I exhaled when he turned to me and handed me a scrap of paper too. He grinned and told me what I was supposed to do the next time he called upon me.

What’s the Word (that inspired the story)?Gloaming: twilight; dusk (source: dictionary.com)

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CREDITSStory: “Lost and Found at the Hotel Gloaming” Copyright © 2019 by Nila L. Patel Narration, Episode Art, Editing, and Production: Nila L. Patel

Music: “Trip-Hop Lounge Abstract Background” by Digital Emotions (Intro/Outro)

Music by ANDREW SITKOV (MuzStation Game Music)* “Casual Theme #3” “Casual Theme #1” “Story at Night” “Hidden Fear” “Peace in My World (final theme)” “Magic Within” “Scary Theme #2 (Version 2)” “A&C Percussion Loop #3”

Music by ALBERT FERNANDEZ (Audio Alchemist, Potion Studio)* “Humorous Exploration (loop)” “Exploration Cave (loop)” “Holy Cathedral” “Cue Nostalgic Story”

*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.

Music by Andrew Sitkov and Albert Fernandez is licensed from GameDev Market Sound effects from AudioJungle and GameDevMarket

Find more music by Digital_Emotions at audiojungle.netFind more music by Andrew Sitkov and Albert Fernandez at gamedevmarket.netFind more stories by Nila at storyfeather.com

Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. Partial slightly angled view of a wall of compartments, like ornate safe deposit boxes, bearing an art deco pattern of layered scales. One box is fully visible. It bears a plate at its bottom right corner that reads “1443.” At bottom center is the handle to the box, an art deco pattern of fanned out diamonds. Above the handle is the lock. A key sits in the lock and that key is being held by a hand whose bottom half is covered by a sleeve which extends out of frame to the right. A watermark of the word “Storyfeather” appears along the left edge of the main box. The original image is a horizontal rectangle. Borders at top and bottom with a messy stamp of the layered scales pattern make the final image shape square.