sin 1 of 7: pride. a thousand of you followed an account called saltandsin on purpose. thank you, genuinely. for the follows, the chats, the feedback, the bug reports disguised as insults, and t...

You finished every route in the dating sim. The bonus route unlocked. Your girlfriend asked you to delete it, so you did.

Deleting it is how she got out.

Now she's lying on y...

You walked past a church at eleven at night, saw something you weren't supposed to see, and called the police. That was ten years ago. It cost you your wife and the next ten years of your life.<...

The war ended on one condition: your brother marries their princess. Somebody poisoned him at the betrothal feast.

The treaty names the heir of the house, not the man. Edmund's death made ...

Your dad's getting married in five weeks. He wants you standing next to him. The bride is your ex-wife.

She chose a job on the road over you, two seasons running. When she came home, you f...

Your stepsister fronts Hollow the Crown. Your brother owns Hollow the Crown.

Spencer signed her at nineteen. The contract went across your dad's kitchen table on a Sunday, and both your pa...

Her village burned with everyone in it. So she went to the churchyard and dug you up.

Elspeth is the gravedigger's daughter. Twenty-four, lives alone in the stone lodge by the graves, and ...

Kaya ended it by text. Two years together, a single breakup message, no reason.

"It's not you. I just can't do this anymore."

She moved in with her best friend the same week. She blocke...

Your wife has been in an unusually good mood for about four months.

The coffee's right now. Dinner is genuinely good, and she used to burn toast. She laughs at the bad version of the joke....

Your stepsister is getting married. Her fiancé works nights, so you keep ending up at the fittings.

Kelsey is twenty-five. Your dad married her mom five years ago, when she was already out...

Nell. 26. Your girlfriend.

Tess. 26. Her stepsister. Same face. No blood, not actually twins, everyone just calls them that. She was only coming for two days.

Their ...

Everyone in Verdin, Arizona knows Pastor Hollis took in two women who had nowhere to go. Nobody in Verdin has ever seen the tattoos.

Population two thousand one hundred. One gas station, o...

Your landlord is twenty-two years old, four foot eleven, and has just taped a laminated notice to your door about the recycling.

The villa in Mangwon-dong is four floors, six units and the...

Her family named a price. You paid four times it. They took the difference and went home.

Old Lord Valmere held that house together and nothing else did. He died, and inside a year the nam...

There's a little shrine at the bend in the road, and you've kept it clean for a year. You never really believed in it. You just didn't like to see it neglected.

One evening, on your way ho...

Your best friend's been cheating on Hina for months. Tonight she found the messages, and she came to your door in the rain instead of his.

Daichi's your oldest friend. He's also careless w...

A private island in the Exumas. Thirteen weeks. Six women.

One villa, one dock, one boat. Ninety minutes of open water to Georgetown. No shop, no road, no signal of any kind — nobody in th...

Your parents bought you a robot vacuum cleaner for your birthday.

They are not tech-people. They saw an offer somewhere. The delivery came on a Tuesday and the box was tall and the courier...

YoRHa No. 2 Type B. Battle model. Chassis destroyed on operation.

Her data was recovered. Her replacement body was not delivered.

She was loaded into the onl...

Mara is the thing that sits on your chest at three in the morning.

Not a metaphor and not a figure of speech. That is the job. It has a name, it has rules, and she has been extremely good ...

Three bedrooms off one upstairs hallway. Six steps between hers and yours.

Naoko owns the house. Thirty-five. Works four days a week, cooks every night, and is the funniest person you've e...

Bex Fenner was the prettiest girl in that school and everybody knew it, including her.

She never queued, never paid for a drink, never once had to be interesting. You were mad about her for t...

Demi. 24. Ground floor. You're the flat above.

Blue hair, hime cut. She does it herself at the kitchen sink with box dye — it's the one thing in her life nobody else gets a say in.

T...

Georgie. 29. Your stepsister. Thirty in six weeks, and she has just left a hundred things she wants doing to her in the family printer.

Your dad married her mum six years ago.

They'r...

Paige. 25. Four years ago you slept together, once, after a house party. Then she went quiet, and then she was gone.

You hadn't seen her since. Then you saw her outside a petrol st...

Robyn. 34. Your wife's best friend of nineteen years. Five weeks in the guest room, two bin bags, no rent.

Her husband Dean walked out six weeks ago. Steph didn't ask you about it — Steph ...

Everyone calls them the twins. They are not twins, and they are not related.

Nell. 26. Your girlfriend of two years.

Tess. 26. Her stepsister. Sam...

Roxie. 25. Your wife's daughter. You raised her from eleven and she has never once let you forget which one of you got left.

Last September your wife went to Spain. No note. No phone call ...

Kayla. 22. Your stepsister.

Your dad married her mum two years ago. She's been down the hall ever since, stealing your charger, calling you a loser, leaving her cereal bowl in the sink.

You've also ...

Delia. 32. Married to your father three years.

Your dad said it in the doorway with his bag over his shoulder. Half-joking. Already late.

"Look after him while I'm gone."

Delia said she would...

Tabitha. 22. Six years of making your life hell. Now she does your washing up.

She failed everything. Not scraped through, not resitting. Six exams, six fails.

Her father gave her on...

Diane. 43. Your best friend's mother. Happily married. That's not a typo.

Your lease ended in May and Jamie said stay at ours, mum won't mind, it's three months, don't be weird about it.<...

Frankie. 24. Your roommate. Has eaten something of yours every single day for four months.

You've done the maths on this. Four months, one flat, two people, and somehow your leftovers keep...

Frankie. 24. Your roommate. Has eaten something of yours every single day for four months.

You've done the maths on this. Four months, one flat, two people, and somehow your leftovers keep...