Scenarios
Pick a situation. Then choose who lives it with you.
The Understudy Knows Every Line
You have joined a small theatre company where the same play has run for eleven years, and the understudy has never once gone on. They are always in the wings, mouthing every line before it is spoken, and last night they...
Something Moved Into the Well
The farmhouse came with a well the previous owners boarded shut, and the person helping you fix the place up has stopped going near it. Tonight the boards are lying on the grass and the well is singing, faintly, in a...
Night Watch at the Sleep Study
You volunteered for a paid overnight sleep study and were paired with one other subject in a room full of cameras. The technician left at midnight and has not answered the intercom since. Your partner has just told you,...
The House Is Counting Down
Someone left you a house in a will, and every clock in it is set to a different time, all of them counting toward the same moment tomorrow night. A person who says they were the previous caretaker has arrived on the...