Halloween I.F – “Uncanny Valley” Day 7
[Please read the instructions before jumping in!] It did seem like a good idea to meet up with this Mystery Texter, but not without some backup. Before he went, he decided, he’d tell someone where he was going and arrange to have them call him shortly after the meetup time to check in. After all, […]
Halloween I.F – “Uncanny Valley” Day 6
[Please read the instructions before jumping in!] A rush of relief hit Tam hard enough that he had to step off the sidewalk, leaning on the pole of a street light. The texter had said are, not were. Ash was alive—or had been since the texter had last seen him, at any rate. Tam couldn’t see […]
Halloween I.F – “Uncanny Valley” Day 5
[Please read the instructions before jumping in!] Tam wasn’t ready to answer yet. He let the phone fall onto Ash’s desk and put his head down on it, chest heaving, burying his face in his folded arms. He stayed there for a long while, leaking hot tears against his arms, until eventually the crashing waves […]
Halloween I.F – “Uncanny Valley” Day 4
[Please read the instructions before jumping in!] Tam stared down at the phone, his hands trembling. Immediately, the worst case scenario flooded in: that something had happened to his brother when he was taken by the witch, that it really was from Ash but that Ash didn’t recognize him any more. But as soon as […]
Halloween I.F – “Uncanny Valley” Day 3
[Please read the instructions before jumping in!] Even if he’d just been trying to keep his spirits up, it wasn’t necessarily a completely absurd idea; apparently witches did answer ads. Their family’s case had been twenty-one years ago, so Tam imagined this particular witch must have been looking in the newspaper’s classifieds, but that didn’t […]