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Teenager Andy Cogen just discovered that he can use the predictive text on his phone to affect the real world.... But does he know that the genie doesn't always grant your wish the way you wanted him to? A short story of suspense and weirdness set at the St. Michael's High School from The Game We Don't Play Anymore.

A criminal wakes up locked in a walk-in freezer.

Lila is just about to close up shop at The Spine Mine in downtown Conners Switch, Indiana, until one last straggler walks through the doors. Late at night. While she's there alone.

Isaac Freedman used to be just this old cook that I buy my coke from. Nice enough guy, I guess. Didn’t really know anything about him until recently—but he definitely was a little cooky. Think: “Dumbledor—but, like, if Dumbledor did a ton of candyflipping in the 90s and now he goes under a different name cause he believes the CIA has it out for him, so he never leaves his house and usually doesn’t even put pants on, and he somehow has the best coke hook-up in the Midwest.

"The Game" is a futuristic VR game that works kind of like the dream machine thing in Inception. One person is the “host” for a game and the other players enter the host’s mind. But when Camille finally hosts a game for the first time, she sends her friends to Hell. Like, literally Hell. It only lasted for a few seconds. But it felt like eternity.

A man finds series of hidden letters within the drawers of a dresser he bought at an estate sale. They detail an exchange between a brother and sister. About a toy zoetrope which the letters claim to be cursed. Not believing in curses, the man returns to the estate sale to see if the zoetrope is still there.