Genre: Philosophical Allegory

A story where characters, events, or settings symbolically represent abstract ideas or principles, often exploring moral, social, religious, or political concepts. It tends to operate on both a literal and symbolic level.

4 min

Philosophical Allegory

The Cartographer’s Palimpsest

My shift in the Department of Ephemeral Geographies began, as always, with a quiet resignation to the absurdity of it all. The City, a vast, restless beast of concrete and glass, never paused for measurement.