The Origin Story

It was late one evening at Oslo Central Station. I'd just finished a long day and missed my usual train home. As I sat there waiting for the next one, I noticed that time... behaved strangely. Like the station existed outside ordinary reality. That's when I realized these moments - these quiet spaces between one thing and the next - that's where the most overlooked stories live.

We live in threshold moments constantly. The pause before answering a text. The walk from the parking lot to the office. The moment between sleep and waking. Empty elevators between floors. The last customer leaving a café. Sitting in your car after arriving somewhere, before you get out. These aren't dramatic spaces - they're the quiet territories we all pass through but rarely notice.

I started collecting these moments. The bathroom mirror check before a video call. Standing at the kitchen counter deciding what to eat. The silence after hanging up the phone. —What fascinated me wasn't their drama, but their stillness. How in these tiny pauses, these unremarkable transitions, something shifts. We become slightly different versions of ourselves - even if we don't realize it.

"The Liminals" became my attempt to slow down these invisible moments. Each story explores a different kind of everyday threshold - the mundane magic that happens when we're simply... between things.

These aren't life-changing stories, though they sometimes feel transformative. They're about the very real magic hiding in the most ordinary (and sometimes extra-ordinary) transitions.