Where Truth Lies Still

Some shortcuts lead through the past. Some never let you leave it.

A cemetery at dusk. A struggling student taking a shortcut. A towering monument that casts long shadows. And a caretaker whose devotion runs dangerously deep.

When Ethan pauses at the Colonel’s statue and reads the inscription—“Great Men Lie in the Past”—he starts to wonder what those words really mean. That curiosity will cost him.

The story unfolds through three perspectives:

Ethan, the intruder

Ol’ Nate, the watcher

The Colonel, silent in bronze

Rather than sprawling across dozens of branches, Where Truth Lies Still focuses on a single pivotal choice — Ethan lives, or Ethan dies.
Each path unlocks a new point of view, revealing what the others could never see.

A short work of gothic interactive fiction exploring memory, devotion, and the weight of legacy.