By John Reizer
George Wesley lived alone in a small one-bedroom apartment. His biggest problem in life wasn’t money or work; it was a lack of functional storage space.
Every closet in his tiny apartment was packed. Boxes sat in corners, and winter clothes filled plastic bins under the bed. The living space felt smaller and smaller every day.
One evening, while scrolling through online ads, George saw something that caught his attention.
THE INFINITE CLOSET
The advertisement showed what appeared to be a plain wooden closet.
“Store unlimited clothing, tools, furniture, collectibles, and more and never run out of space again.”
George laughed, shaking his head in doubt. “Sure,” he said.
But curiosity eventually got the better of old George. He had read through dozens of five-star customer reviews, and every one of them claimed the same thing: the closet worked as described.
After thinking about it for several days, George finally ordered one.
A week later, a large box arrived at his apartment. Inside were wooden panels, metal brackets, a small wrench, and a simple instruction sheet.
The entire thing took George less than an hour to assemble. When it was completed, the Infinite Closet stood six feet tall and looked completely ordinary.
George opened the door and peered inside into total darkness.
The interior of the closet seemed to stretch much deeper than he had anticipated.
George tossed an old shoe inside, and to his surprise, it disappeared. Then he threw in a box of books. They, too, disappeared. Next, a chair, a desk, and a mirror. All of the items were gone!
Within a couple of hours, George had emptied half his apartment into The Infinite Closet. The damn thing never filled up. No matter how much junk he placed into the six-foot space, there was always plenty more room.
The advertisement had been telling the truth. Over the next few weeks, George became obsessed with the closet.
He stored everything imaginable inside:
Old clothes, holiday decorations, broken electronics, a bicycle, and even an entire sofa.
The closet accepted it all with plenty of room to spare.
Finally, one Saturday morning, George noticed something odd. A slight breeze was coming from inside the closet space. That discovery made no sense to George because the structure had no air vents.
Curiously, George stepped inside and noticed that the floor felt sturdy beneath his feet.
George took a few steps, and then a few more. Behind him, the apartment doorway looked strangely far away.
George hesitated momentarily, then reached back and pulled the closet door shut.
Everything went black, and for just a few moments he experienced weightlessness.
The sensation didn’t last long. Then George noticed light in front of him. He eventually came upon another door, which he slowly opened.
George wasn’t in his apartment anymore.
He stepped outside and noticed that the sky was dark green and, even stranger, the sun was purple.
There were also peculiar-looking mountains lurking in the distance.
Four moons were suspended in the sky overhead.
George stood there in total disbelief. “What the hell?” he said, scratching his head.
Behind him stood The Infinite Closet.
But it now sat in the middle of a field covered in strange-looking grass.
Out of nowhere, a creature walked past him. It looked somewhat human, except it had four arms and eyes.
The creature stopped and looked at George, smiling. “You’re a new traveler, aren’t you?” it asked.
George nearly fell over. “You can speak English?”
The creature shrugged its shoulders. “Not really.”
George shook his head, confused.
“What do you mean, not really?”
“The closet translates,” the creature explained, pointing toward the wooden structure.
George slowly looked back at the closet.
The creature continued. “Every world has these kinds of closets.”
“What do you mean every world?” George asked.
The creature laughed. “You’re standing in one of billions of worlds.”
George’s stomach suddenly felt funny.
“Billions?” he asked.
The creature nodded. “The closet doesn’t store objects.”
“It doesn’t?”
“No.”
“What does it do?”
The creature pointed upward toward the strange sky. “It stores realities.”
George stood there absolutely speechless at this point.
The creature explained more. “Long ago, someone discovered a way to fold dimensions together. The Infinite Closet was the result. Every item placed inside became connected to another reality. The more things a person stored, the more dimensions the closet connected to. Eventually, the owner gains access to all of them.”
George suddenly remembered all the junk he had shoved inside the closet over the past month.
He’d tossed hundreds of objects into the closet space, which meant he created hundreds of connections to hundreds of worlds.
“You mean I can visit them?” George asked.
The creature smiled. “You already are.”
George looked around. For the first time in his life, his tiny apartment seemed very far away. “So what happens now?” George asked.
The creature looked out toward the horizon. “Well, that’s completely up to you.”
George glanced back at the closet door. Home was only one step away, yet beyond this strange-looking world were probably countless more worlds, each featuring entire civilizations of new lifeforms and endless possibilities.
George smiled. For as long as he could remember, he had worried tirelessly about finding more storage space. Now he had found something much bigger.
George stepped forward, and the closet door quietly closed behind him once again. George began exploring infinity.
The next morning, while having his breakfast back in his apartment, George read another advertisement online:
THE INFINITE CLOSET II
“Now shipping to billions of new realities.”
John Reizer is a medically disabled and retired chiropractor, author of science fiction thrillers, and the co-screenwriter of the movie Target List, which was released worldwide in 2023 by Mad Wife Productions.
Releasing July 4th, 2026
A man and a woman, complete strangers to one another, receive the same cryptic text message: Be at the Crossroads Diner at the intersection of highways 9 and 11. Come alone at 2:17 a.m. and don’t be late!
Drawn there by grief and curiosity, they arrive at a lonely roadside establishment where the coffee is hot, the lights are inviting, and the clock above the counter is frozen at 2:17.
It never, ever moves!
Seated across from each other in booth number 5, they wait for someone or something to show, but no one comes. Instead, memories begin to reveal themselves through the diner’s windows, revealing their part in a terrible tragedy 3 years earlier, a murder!
Every attempt to leave the diner ends the same way: a reset; in an instant, they are seated back in the booth again. The same song plays on the jukebox, the same half-empty sugar dispenser sits on the tabletop, and the same unchanging time of day refuses to move forward.
Trapped in a place that may not actually exist, they are forced to confront a terrifying possibility: they were both there that fateful morning and played an integral role in something neither of them chose to remember, and what they’ve told themselves for the past three years is a lie.
The diner will not release them until they learn the truth of what happened in those critical minutes, and how their presence that morning was tied to a murder that was never solved.
Is the diner real or a creation of two people’s tortured souls, a construct born from guilt and trauma, built by two fractured minds desperate to unbury the truthful past?
Time has stopped!
The truth has not!
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Truth Engines
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What if fiction reveals the truths modern society refuses to face?
Truth Engines is a bold collection of science fiction shorts that acknowledges the hidden realities currently affecting humanity. Blending imagination with clever storytelling, these writings explore a wide range of important subjects currently impacting all human beings.
Releasing September 1st, 2026
Science fiction has traditionally been a way for writers to discuss difficult ideas safely. It has allowed authors to examine dangerous possibilities before they become reality. Sometimes fiction entertains us, sometimes it warns us, and sometimes it says the necessary things that otherwise couldn’t be said.
These stories are not meant to preach or claim absolute answers. They are meant to encourage thought. They will hopefully inspire readers to ask questions about power, truth, freedom, artificial intelligence, corruption, media influence, medical ethics, surveillance, and the future direction of humanity itself.
Some readers may see these stories as pure fiction. Others may recognize pieces of the modern world hidden inside them. That choice belongs to you, the reader.
The goal of my writing is twofold: to entertain while also encouraging people to think more deeply about the systems shaping human life behind the scenes.
Whether these stories inspire agreement, debate, curiosity, or discomfort, I hope they stay with you long after the final page.
Sometimes fiction is not an escape from reality, but rather the only way to talk about it.
–John Reizer
Beta Reviews
It’s an amazing read! The stories in Truth Engines were born and live in the spaces between the 88 black-and-white notes on a piano keyboard. If you’re a fan of The Twilight Zone, you’ll really love this book!
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Truth Engines is an incredible reading experience!
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Critical Reviews
“Rachel Alig is terrific as Donna while Justin Ray as Clyde also manages to impress. Combining witty commentary with a constant threat to life, script writers Palo and Reizer develop a narrative that is funny and charming while ensuring that none of the thrill and danger is lost in the process.”
– INDIE WRAP MAGAZINE
“Drama, thrills, comedy and so much more: Directors Andrew Arguello and MJ Palo’s Target List has all the fixings of a great movie. Combining a fantastic cast with the witty writing of MJ Palo and John Reizer, whichever way you flip this film, it lands on its feet with feline agility.”
– INDY REVIEWS
“The script by Palo with John Reizer, for the most part, rides that perfect balance between its more dramatic moments and perfectly placed moments of humor that never distract. While they’re probably not going to get invited to any big pharma conventions anytime soon, Reizer and Palo have a point, and they make it beautifully.”
“Target List is a great view for anyone who wants a compelling and suspenseful flick with a message that matters.”
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