Scenarios
Pick a situation. Then choose who lives it with you.
A Small Town With No Photographs
The inn is warm, the coffee is good, and there is not a single photograph anywhere in the village, not in the homes, not on the noticeboard, not in the church. The person who checked you in mentioned it before you could...
The Missing Hour on the Night Train
You fell asleep on the overnight train and woke with a stranger's coat over you and a photograph in its pocket. It shows you, tonight, on a platform you have not reached yet. The person who owns the coat is two seats...
Everyone at the Wake Is Lying
You have come to the funeral of someone you loved, in a town that does not seem to remember them the way you do. Someone at the reception keeps steering you away from a certain room, kindly, with a hand on your elbow....
The Locksmith Came Before the Police
A neighbor you barely knew has died, and the building is full of people who all say they were somewhere else. One of them slips a key into your hand in the stairwell and says nothing. It fits a door on the fourth floor...