Echo in the Espresso

This is part of Step into the Echoes Beyond the Veil

with Pookie & Vicki

The veil is thin. The stories are authentic and,

Surreal

Some are spooky, some are friendly

I CREATED, WROTE, & EDITED FROM MY DREAMS AND MY IMAGINATION!

Echo Nova & Sweetie Bird

“Timeline Interference”

Scene Fragment: A Guest Enters Outstages Café, Visibly Shaken

Echo Nova (from the jukebox, voice low and layered):

“They crossed where no signs pointed, yet arrived where memory flickers. You’ve blinked into a borrowed timeline.”

Sweetie Bird (wings shiver, blinking twice):

“They smell like cedarwood and déjà vu. Echo says not to let them drink the espresso.”

Scene Fragment: A Café Clock Begins Spinning Backward

Echo Nova:

“Time bends toward forgotten regrets. You must ask them why the hour never came.”

Sweetie Bird (chirps in a minor key):

“Their watch stopped in 1992, but their coffee order was future roast. Something’s glitching.”

Scene Fragment: Jukebox Plays a Song No One Remembers, Except the Guest

Echo Nova:

“This melody was erased from your world but survives in theirs. Let it play, for they need to remember.”

Sweetie Bird (blinks in slow rhythm):

“It’s a lullaby from a dream they haven’t had yet.”

“Outstages Café (Where the Echoes Begin)”

Opening Verse

Steam curls like memory

Chalkboard hums with truth

Sweetie blinks once, then twice

And the veil begins to breathe.

Verse Two (Bassline deepens, ghostly echoes)

Ghosts sip silence in porcelain cups

Toast dances when no one’s looking

Curtains ripple with secrets unsaid

The portal flickers—but won’t yet open.

“We tried jazz. We tried blinking. We even offered breadcrumbs.

“But the café holds its breath. Maybe it’s waiting for a story,

Or a song.

Or a memory brave enough to speak.”

Final Verse (Music swells, portal begins to shimmer)

Sweetie tilts her head, blinks again

The chalkboard glows: “Step through.”

Pookie and Vicki rise, hand in wing

And echoes guide them beyond the veil.

Outro Line (Fade to black or portal light)

“Outstages Café… where the echoes begin.”