you are here
The Tenants Below the Frost Line
horror◐ Teen5 contributors · 4 paragraphs deep
I chased Theo down, grabbing his hood just past step twenty. He pointed deeper into the dark. "There's people down there," he whispered. "They waved at me." I looked. Far below the frost line, pale shapes stood in a row, perfectly still, all of them facing up at us.
Dad finally believed us and called a town meeting. The neighbors just nodded sadly. "Everyone feeds the deep," the oldest one said. "One person, once a generation. That's the rent. You're new, so you're behind on payments." The room went quiet, and they all looked at little Theo.
↔ version 2 of 2 of this paragraph — hover its sides to flip. The card below is what happens next.
What happens next?
0 ways forwardVote share across the top 0 branches
No futures yet — be the one who decides what happens next.