Twenty Inches From Eternity

This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/twenty-inches-from-eternity. A rising politician is haunted by a mysterious green door leading to a paradise beyond reality, forcing him to choose ambition or escape. Check more stories related to media at: https://hackernoon.com/c/media. You can also check exclusive content about #astounding-stories, #astounding-stories-april-2004, #literary-classic, #classics-and-literary-fiction, #english-literature, #science-fiction, #public-domain-sci-fi, #top-sci-fi-books, and more. This story was written by: @astoundingstories. Learn more about this writer by checking @astoundingstories's about page, and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com. Lionel Wallace confesses to a friend that as a child he discovered a green door in a white wall leading to a magical paradise filled with beauty, peace, and belonging. Throughout his successful political career, the door reappears at crucial moments, but ambition and duty keep him from entering. After his mysterious death near an open construction gate, the narrator wonders if Wallace found madness—or another world.