A short story collection of creeping unease, this read dwells in the domestic spaces we think we know, reconfiguring familiarity into something else entirely more strange. At times, there are incisions of horror, at others the discomfort you'll feel is more of a vague, cosmic dread. What makes these stories so compelling and unshakeable is that the thing disrupted is home: theirs, ours, yours. The horror is just on the other side of the wall.
The vagueness of it made me uneasy, even more so when a special announcement popped up, telling us we were all to stay home today: school had been cancelled nationwide, and a stay-at-home mandate issued for the day. Under no circumstances were you to leave your house.
All day we tried to tiptoe around the nervousness. We brought out old board games, the kids dusted off an old gaming console. At some point I baked banana muffins, then cleaned the kitchen until it shone. There were books and card games and long stretches of time where we sat together in silence, each lost in some unspeakable thought.
