Inspector Story

In 1963 New York, a smiling hot dog vendor built a cult following—until fathers kept walking back “for one more” and never came home. The police finally opened his locked basement, and the secret wasn’t a recipe.

Lights out. Silence. A cold finger press. This story reframes a classroom “game” as sensory deprivation, tracking practice, and informant conditioning—with the teacher taking notes on who could lie best.

A heat-dead traffic jam turns one man into a walking fuse. He thinks he’s going home for a birthday. The city thinks he’s a problem. And by the time he realizes he’s the villain, it’s already too late.

A VR update triggers a new “Tetris effect,” but the patterns aren’t blocks anymore—they feel like targets. The higher the rank, the stronger the changes, until the narrator realizes the game may be screening for something… and the collection team is already outside.

A toxic marriage, a twisted pact, and a “one last goodbye” that turns into something the neighborhood can’t un-remember—because the next day, the couple hosted a barbecue, and multiple neighbors said the same thing: it tasted wrong.