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The Self-Writing Journal

By: Graham Vale
Narrated by: Donna Dew
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Summary

When Dr. Eleanor Vance, an Oxford archivist, receives an unmarked journal on her doorstep before dawn, she assumes it is a mistake—until the blank pages begin to write themselves.

The journal does not predict the future. It records her present thoughts. Her hesitations. Her decisions. And the things she has already forgotten.

As Eleanor investigates the journal’s origin, she discovers it is not alone—and neither is she. Another journal appears in the Bodleian Library, bearing the same impossible behavior. Together with her colleague Alistair Finch, Eleanor is drawn into a quiet, unsettling pattern of memory loss, repetition, and return.

The journal does not threaten. It observes. It remembers when humans cannot.

And it may have been waiting for Eleanor far longer than she realizes.

The Self-Writing Journal is an atmospheric psychological novella about memory, identity, and the fragile line between observation and participation. Subtle, restrained, and deeply unsettling, it will appeal to listeners who favor intelligent suspense, literary mystery, and stories that linger long after the final word.

©2025 Graham Vale (P)2026 Graham Vale
Genre Fiction Psychological
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