@horrorStories — #cw-unreality
CHITTERROR TALES - EPISODE 003 Woe is Thee. Tonight's story concerns a regular customer, a familiar order, and the importance of noticing when someone has changed. Viewer discretion is advised. Viewer participation is inevitable. --- You are a barista. You work mornings. There are worse shifts, really. Your alarm is at five in the morning. The drive is always in darkness. The smell of coffee clings to your clothes even after you have gone home. The first customer stands outside ten minutes before you open. You can feel their peering eyes through the glass, as though staring hard enough will f...Read more
CHITTERROR TALES - EPISODE 002 The Continuity Hour, Part II: The Servant Tonight's story concerns a devoted maid and her precise employer. Viewer discretion is advised. Viewer participation is inevitable. --- The studio audience applauds before you enter. You can hear them through the curtain. There are dozens, maybe hundreds, of hands striking together with mechanical enthusiasm. Their rhythm is too perfect to be spontaneous. There are no cheers, no whistles, no individual voices rising above the rest. Only the unending applause. The volume begins at full, then ends abruptly in silence. A...Read more
CHITTERROR TALES - EPISODE 001 The Continuity Hour, Part I Tonight’s story concerns a tired man, a familiar television program, and the danger of being offered precisely what one asks for. Viewer discretion is advised. Viewer participation is inevitable. --- You come home from an unending day of labor at the factory. You live alone. You have a small, sad apartment. You don't have many comforts, but you do have one: late-night public-access television. Your ritual of coming home from your job to watch your delightfully simple “edutainment” television has been yours for as long as you can remem...Read more