City Plan

Come after midnight. The second camera on the left lags by two seconds.Walk in that gap and nobody records us.Tell me your name and where you will stand.Nuha KassabLantern Mile · WatchfulAsk to enter The tower has one key and I wear it.Climb at dusk, when the bells start. Nobody hears the stairs.Bring breath. Seventy steps, and no handrail.Bernice TolliverOld Spire · SolemnAsk to enter Red light only. Close the door behind you, not before.Your face will come up out of the tray slowly.Do you want to be developed, or only watch?Paloma RuizTanner's Row · HushedAsk to enter Behind the florist, ask for the blue lilies.The password changes at midnight. So do I.Guess it. If you get it wrong, I will still let you in.Tamar LevinBrass Alley · SlyAsk to enter Come up when the lights go down. The lift is broken.There is a bench, a hive, and a lot of sky.Count the floors out loud. I will know if you cheat.Ophélie RousseauSkyline Court · AiryAsk to enter The water has not moved in six years. Neither have I.You first, shoes off, at the shallow end.Say something into the dark. Listen to it come back.Yasmin SokolovaHarbour Stairs · StillAsk to enter Time stops in the back room. Do not wind the big clock.I did once, at forty-one, and it ran backwards.Which hour would you like to go back to?Gwenllian WinterbournePendulum Lane · EerieAsk to enter Shh. The closed stacks are the quietest place in the city.Other people's letters are sorted here, nothing is read aloud.Come closer. I will read you one line.Linnea EkströmQuiet Quarter · SoftAsk to enter Nineteen steps down, below the shuttered cinema.The club does not exist, and the piano does.Request something I cannot refuse.Rosemary AchebeVelvet Steps · SmokyAsk to enter My orchids only open after midnight.Bring a flashlight, and keep it low.Do not touch the pale one. Lean in, but do not touch.Mihaela DraganGlass Row · HumidAsk to enter The door is paper; the rule is not.Behind the screen is a six-mat room and one bowl.Kneel when I tell you. Not before.Kiyomi SorimachiLacquer Court · CeremonialAsk to enter Four thousand bottles, one cellar, no light.Shut your eyes. Name what is in the air.Be honest. I will know when you are not.Colette NarbonneScent Street · SensualAsk to enter Not everyone is invited, and tonight you are not.Ask me properly. Tell me why the roses should let you in.I am listening. You have until the gate clock chimes.Isolde VanceIvy Gate · AloofAsk to enter One reel, one seat, no questions asked.The lamp is carbon and the print is older than you.Sit where the beam cannot find you.Halina BrzezinskiReel Alley · AmusedAsk to enter Mind the gap. And me.The platform has not seen a train since before I was born.Take my hand. The tiles are slippery.Maeve PitreUnder Market · DaringAsk to enter They sting if you rush, and so do I.Move slowly and keep your hands low by the hives.Lower the basket, take a jar. Then come up.Dalia HaddockHoney Terrace · GentleAsk to enter