The house with the winter garden
They found a greenhouse inside the abandoned house. The palms are alive, the soil is wet, the watering can is tagged with today.
- ThemWe are inside. The house really is empty
- YouSend photos
- ThemThe windows are boarded and it is bright in here
- There is glass in the roof. A winter garden
- YouA winter garden in an abandoned house
- ThemThe palms are alive. The soil is wet
- pause 1.5 s
- YouThen the house is not abandoned
- ThemThe doors are welded shut outside. We came in a window
- YouWelded how
- ThemRebar. From the street, so nobody gets out
- pause 1.2 s
- YouGo back out the same window
- ThemHold on, there is a watering can
- With a tag on it. A date
- YouWhat date
- pause 1.8 s
- ThemToday's
- YouLeave
- ThemGreg says someone is walking on the second floor
- YouCall the police
- ThemThere is only signal by the window
- pause 1.5 s
- We are at the window. It is boarded from the inside
- YouYou climbed through it
- ThemWe did
- pause 1.2 s
- YouThen it was boarded after you
- ThemThe light went out
- The sprinklers came on in the garden
- pause 1.8 s
- YouRun for a door
- ThemWhich one
- YouAny of them
- pause 1.5 s
- ThemNone of the doors have handles on this side
- YouWhere is Greg
- pause 1.5 s
- ThemGreg is watering
How it works
The fear is assembled from a single wrong detail: something is being watered in a dead house. The way out closes gradually, and the reader sees it before the characters do.
Every story here is fiction. Any resemblance to real people or events is coincidental.