By the time I realized the streets were empty, the mist had swallowed the streetlights. Fresno was never truly silent. There were always engines humming somewhere, a dog barking behind a fence, the distant rush of tires on wet pavement. But that night, every familiar sound had stopped.
Then I heard footsteps behind me. I walked faster. So did they.
At the next corner, something scraped along the sidewalk—a slow, dragging sound, like a heavy chain being pulled over concrete. I turned, but the mist showed me nothing.
“Hello?” I called.
From somewhere inside the fog, my own voice answered. Not an echo. A reply. Then something whispered my name, very softly, from the street ahead.
And I remembered I lived alone.
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Every World Has Its Secrets.
The Hour Fresno Forgets
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A town behind the Veil, where fractured histories, missing records, and inherited secrets refuse to stay buried.
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