Are you still watching? (Gone Dark)

There is a hallway in this house that isn't on the floor plan. Halley calls it bonus square footage and walks eight thousand viewers down it.Every Wednesday at ten she streams a tour of an empty four-million-dollar listing for the same regulars and the same hearts. Two hundred houses in four years. She has never once not finished a tour.This one, up in the Los Feliz hills, keeps going. Behind six feet of wall there is a room eighteen feet deep, and it isn’t the last.

The front door opens onto another room. The things she cut from two hundred videos are waiting on the floors. Her thumb won't press End. Her call to 911 goes nowhere but the chat, where everyone thinks it's a bit.When the viewer count climbs, the warmth comes back into her hands. A dip, and she can't breathe.Then the chat starts answering what she never said out loud.

It knows the name she stopped answering to at nineteen. And Ava is calling: the sister Halley cut out of a video three and a half years ago, who hasn't spoken to her since. It's Ava's birthday. The stream is still live.Are you still watching?A 30,000-word novella of cosmic and psychological horror, told in real time across one livestream. The dread builds a room at a time.