Foley awoke slowly, hovering on the edge of awareness and oblivion. In that pleasant place between understanding that elephants couldn’t fly and believing he still had wings and was racing them, he moved to roll onto his side. Nothing happened.

His brow creased. Again, he tried to move. His body remained unresponsive.

With a rush of horror his eyes flew open, and the half-reality around him bega...

It was a stormy Thursday evening, slow and muggy with the kind of miserable, aching weight to it that came with a hard week at work and too much barometric pressure. Emerson ducked hurriedly into the overcrowded restaurant, his work suit soaked at the edges by the downpour despite his best efforts.

The middle-aged businessman grumbled in irritation as he half-heartedly shook out his umbrella and ...

Charlie ripped the door to her flat open, roaring, “COME ON, CANDICE! WE’RE GONNA BE LATE!!” Not even waiting for her roommate to reply, the young woman hastily changed from her professional clown outfit into her wrestling uniform right there in the doorway. She didn’t even bother attempting to salvage her now-smeared makeup, and instead began arranging her long russet hair into its signature ‘bat...

You turn over in your sleep, grumbling confusedly in your half-awake state as the motion doesn’t feel quite as you’d expected. The sheets, and even the bed itself, both feel… *different,* somehow… Unfamiliar…

…You try to recall your last waking memory, only to come up blank.

Suddenly much more awake, your eyes snap open and you bolt upright, finding yourself in a cold, tiny, bare room you’ve nev...