Nocturnal

Author: Deadman

A message arrives in a group chat at nine forty-seven on a Tuesday night. Four words and a date. Three weeks away. Jessica, Grace, Gerald and Kate don't know each other well — just well enough. Their kids walk home together. That's all. But now someone called MM knows their names, knows their children, and wants them to know that a debt is owed. What starts as a mystery — who is MM, what does she want, how did she get in the chat — slowly becomes something else entirely. Something older. Something that has been sitting in a dark house at the end of a quiet street for a very long time, waiting for someone to come and find it.