Parallax Hearts / What the Town Keeps

A haunted little town, told one page and one song at a time.

What the Town Keeps moves through an album, a visual novel, and a forthcoming companion book. Enter through the story, hear the songs, and follow the next pieces of Vallen as the town opens up.

Rainy Vallen scene for What the Town Keeps, with old small-town atmosphere and cinematic dusk light

Start here

What the Town Keeps

Page one is the door.

Begin in Vallen, a small town where the visual novel, songs, and fragments all move through the same weather. The best next step is to read from the beginning.

Read from page one.

Use the soundtrack as a companion, not a detour.

Support is optional and helps fund new pages.

New public story work is reviewed before it goes live.

Field notes atmosphere for the What the Town Keeps archive

New volume / in development

Forthcoming companion volume

The story is becoming a book.

A companion book from the world of What the Town Keeps is being completed alongside the album and visual-novel archive.

The album carries the emotional weather. The visual novel opens the archive one page at a time. The book will hold a longer path through the same world.