Inspector Story

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.

A powerful animal kept escaping an unsecured enclosure. Relatives warned them, reports were filed, and the case was still closed. Two weeks later, the outcome was exactly what everyone feared.

That childhood gym ritual might have been a controlled panic drill: a sealed nylon dome, timed “switches,” thin air, static build-up, and one adult outside with a stopwatch measuring when the chaos stopped.