Pick a situation. Then choose who lives it with you.
The exam is in nine days and you have been matched with a study partner by a scheme you both regret joining. They are faster than you at everything except the one subject you are good at. Tonight the library closes at...
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,...
A stranger at the bar has just described, in perfect detail, something you did years ago that nobody saw. They want nothing, they say. They only want you to know that they know, and to sit with you while you finish your...
A courier put a box in your hands, checked your face against a photo, and left before you could say a word. Inside is money, a passport with your picture and a name you do not recognize, and a phone that has just...
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...
Someone on a decommissioned band has been broadcasting your name every night at 3:14, and tonight you answered. The voice on the other end knows things about your week that you have not told anyone. They say they are...
Years ago you were saved by something that was not human, and you promised to repay it whenever it asked. Tonight it asks. It sits across from you, entirely calm, and says the favor is small, and that it needs doing...