Home short stories
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The Call From My Number
A woman receives a warning from her own phone number, then has to decide whether the thing in her house is trying to save her or lure her back.
HorrorH-007The Voice in the Transcript
A daughter revisits a saved voicemail from her dead father and finds a new warning that points to a recording hidden in the family home.
HorrorH-012The Growth
A homeowner discovers a strange organic growth in her basement that seems to respond to her emotions — and it's spreading faster than she can cut it away.
Fake MarriageF-014His Mother's Favorite Lie
An architect brings his coworker home as a fake wife for Lunar New Year, unaware that his mother recognizes the lie and needs it to expose a more dangerous family fiction.
HorrorH-035Find My Says Home
At a Minneapolis work dinner, a public defender sees her husband both across the restaurant and moving through their supposedly empty house.
RevengeR-040My Ex Came to Demolish the Theater We Fell in Love In
A woman stops her ex's demolition of their hometown theater by filing a pending historic-register application he omitted—then learns he is destroying wage-theft records his father hid in the building.
HorrorH-059A Light in the Net Loft
A net mender hears her missing sister behind a locked loft door and must risk the aunt who controls her home to get an answer.
HorrorH-068One Minute on the Voice Reel
An old voice reel lets an archivist send one minute to the night she left home.
HorrorH-063The Boathouse Nursery
A home health aide hears a baby crying in her sister’s empty nursery and helps her test an explanation designed to make her doubt herself.
HorrorH-062The Compass That Pointed Home
A kayak guide follows a compass that permanently bars familiar places, until its clues force her to reconsider who needs finding.
RevengeR-066The Cows Came Home Without Her
The cows came home without my mother, and Dad had already booked the truck to take them away.
HorrorH-079The Road My Mother Closed
Mom left me a locked bridge, and Dad wanted it opened before the woman he’d silenced came home.
HorrorH-088Two Minutes on the Kitchen Phone
An unplugged kitchen phone gave me two minutes to answer my younger self before my sister left home.
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