Are you still watching?

Halley tours houses for a living. Half a million people watch her walk an empty listing on a Wednesday morning, narrating the light and the trim and the marble she'll never own. It's a good stream. The kind that runs itself.Today's house is staged and freshly cleaned, exactly as gorgeous as the photos promised. Then she finds a hallway that isn't on the floor plan. The chat doesn't mention it. The chat is too busy answering a question she only thought.Six years ago, Halley rebranded - new name, new voice, a person easy to love in ninety-minute pieces. She left the old name behind, and the sister who used to say it. The house has both. So does the corridor that keeps getting longer, and the audience that has stopped calling her Halley.The counter climbs. The viewers keep arriving. The stream loops back to the only question it has ever asked.Are you still watching?Psychological horror, novella-length. Mature (17+) - contains parasocial obsession, dissociation, grief, and disturbing imagery.

Pages: 89, Paperback, Independently published