Ten stories.None of themend well.
The Last Train from Nowhere
▮▮▮▮▯You board the 11:52. It never reaches a station.
Pei Kadhai
▮▮▮▮▮A village road at midnight. A woman asking for a lift. One old rule you were told never to break.
3:33
▮▮▮▮▮You wake at the same minute every night. Something is counting down.
Ward Nine
▮▮▮▮▮Night duty on a closed ward. Nine beds. Nine charts. Ten patients.
The Tenant Below
▮▮▮▮▯The flat downstairs has been empty for two years. Someone is moving furniture at night.
Room 404
▮▮▮▮▯The hotel has no fourth floor. Your key card says 404.
Signal Lost
▮▮▮▮▯You are the only operator at a relay station in the hills. At 1am, something starts answering.
The Nine O'Clock Tape
▮▮▮▮▮A VHS in a house clearance. Forty minutes of your childhood living room, filmed while you slept.
Deep Field
▮▮▮▮▮A flooded quarry, forty metres down, one torch. There is a village at the bottom, and its lights are on.
The Substitute
▮▮▮▮▯Detention, 6pm, an empty school. The teacher supervising you retired in 1997.
All stories are fiction. None of them are about you. Probably.