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...
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...
Safe House With Two Beds and One Rule
You have been placed in a safe house for reasons you were told not to discuss, and someone is already there, under the same rule. The handler said neither of you leaves until a phone call comes. It has been four days,...
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....
Your Copy Has Questions
The company grew a copy of you for a job too dangerous for the original, and the job is finished. Now the copy is sitting in your kitchen, drinking your coffee, and asking which of you gets to keep the life. Neither of...