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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.

Lines: 31 · about 103 s of video · Abandoned house

  1. ThemWe are inside. The house really is empty
  2. YouSend photos
  3. ThemThe windows are boarded and it is bright in here
  4. There is glass in the roof. A winter garden
  5. YouA winter garden in an abandoned house
  6. ThemThe palms are alive. The soil is wet
  7. pause 1.5 s
  8. YouThen the house is not abandoned
  9. ThemThe doors are welded shut outside. We came in a window
  10. YouWelded how
  11. ThemRebar. From the street, so nobody gets out
  12. pause 1.2 s
  13. YouGo back out the same window
  14. ThemHold on, there is a watering can
  15. With a tag on it. A date
  16. YouWhat date
  17. pause 1.8 s
  18. ThemToday's
  19. YouLeave
  20. ThemGreg says someone is walking on the second floor
  21. YouCall the police
  22. ThemThere is only signal by the window
  23. pause 1.5 s
  24. We are at the window. It is boarded from the inside
  25. YouYou climbed through it
  26. ThemWe did
  27. pause 1.2 s
  28. YouThen it was boarded after you
  29. ThemThe light went out
  30. The sprinklers came on in the garden
  31. pause 1.8 s
  32. YouRun for a door
  33. ThemWhich one
  34. YouAny of them
  35. pause 1.5 s
  36. ThemNone of the doors have handles on this side
  37. YouWhere is Greg
  38. pause 1.5 s
  39. 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.