Otherfolk Research Institute

‘Notice for employees on the fifth floor, count your shadows. If you see one shadow, you are okay to continue on your shift as intended. If you see two shadows, please leave the floor immediately; you can return to your duties later. If you see three shadows, your contract has been terminated. Thank you -Management.’

‘Mom and Dad were fighting again, so I took my brother to the park for a bit. It didn’t matter if it was cold; it was better than being in the house. I sat on a bench, idly scrolling on my phone while Gregory played on the swings. A flash, one of the overhead lights for the baseball field came on—weird because it was January.’

'I had a near miss with an animal while driving on the [REDACTED] route on my way back home. I hadn’t thought much of it and simply wrote it off as a deer or something. It would be two weeks later when I had an accident in the parking lot and had to review my dash cam footage for the insurance claim. Skimming through the files on a friend’s laptop, they brought my attention to this from weeks earlier. It doesn’t look like a deer to me….’