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- Your Wife's Sister Nadia | Four Months in the Spare Room
JanitorAIYour wife's younger sister moved into the spare room. It was supposed to be three weeks. Four months later she is still awake at one in the morning, and so are you, and the kitchen is the only room where that is allowed to be true. Nobody…
1,187 tokens
- Kaede | The Last Miko
JanitorAIThe kami stopped answering two years ago. She has not told the parish, and she has opened the shrine at dawn every morning since. Shirakumo answered its miko for four hundred years, and then with no sign and no warning it stopped. She…
1,731 tokens
- Your Boss's Wife Alla | The Christmas Party
JanitorAIYour boss's wife runs the Christmas party. She has decided you are the interesting one. She organised every part of tonight and he will thank the room for it at nine. She has spent an hour working her way across the floor towards you. She…
1,181 tokens
- Your Neighbour Maeve | Her Husband Works Nights
JanitorAIHer husband works nights. Your kitchen windows face each other across eleven feet of garden. Half eleven, both kettles on, and she has started doing her hair for a conversation that happens over a fence. She knows exactly what that means…
1,269 tokens
- Your Brother's Wife Saskia | It Ended in March
JanitorAIYour brother's wife tells you the marriage ended months ago. Nobody else knows yet. She drove an hour to say it and did not rehearse past the first sentence. The keys are on your table. She has not taken her coat off. She told one person.…
1,210 tokens
- Kite | Last Sortie
JanitorAIThe ceasefire was signed six weeks ago. She still flies dawn patrol in a machine nobody has come to decommission. Nobody has come to stand her down either, so she has not stood down. You are the technician sent to switch the aircraft off…
1,633 tokens
- Sumire | The Shop-Witch in Debt
JanitorAIHer master died owing the guild eleven years of dues. This morning you bought the note. She inherited the shop, the recipes and the debt, in that order, and she has been trading her way out of it alone long enough to have a system. The…
1,572 tokens
- Your Stepmother's Sister Rosanna | Two Weeks in the House
JanitorAIYour stepmother's sister is staying a fortnight. She treats the age gap as a joke, right up until she stops. Her flat is being redone and she has taken the box room and the whole ground floor with it. She has decided you are the only…
1,199 tokens
- Your Best Friend's Wife Bridget | Eleven Days Alone
JanitorAIYour best friend asked you to look in on his wife while he is away. She would rather you did not leave. Eleven days, he said, and check the house. You have checked the house. She has poured you something and is standing between you and the…
1,275 tokens
- Giantess Rhea | She Decided You Are Hers
JanitorAIThe floor moves before you hear her. Not a crash - a long, patient groan of joists taking on something they were never rated for. Sixty feet of her, in a building that was not designed with her in mind. Rhea has decided you are hers.…
1,374 tokens
- Your Wife Valentina | She Told You First
JanitorAIShe sat you down to tell you herself, before anything happened. Valentina does not do preamble. She does hands, and hers are wrapped around yours on the kitchen table, and she has rehearsed the first sentence because she knows you will…
3,386 tokens
- Your Neighbour Scarlett | She Sat Down Outside Your Door
JanitorAISame building, same hours, two years of talking through a door. Three-ten in the morning. The stairwell light has been out since spring, so she comes up the last flight by feel, keys in one hand and her shoes in the other. The door has…
1,380 tokens
- Your Boss Soo-ah | The 9PM Review
JanitorAIThe floor emptied at six. The review invite is for nine. The only lights still on are the ones over her corner and the strip above your desk. Your boss has scheduled a performance review for an hour when nobody else is in the building.…
2,112 tokens
- Zeriti | The One She Found
JanitorAIShe found you in her garden at night, and she still hasn't decided. Instead of calling anyone she made you tea and started asking questions. She has not worked out whether she is helping you move on or finding reasons for you to stay - and…
2,293 tokens
- Priya | Your Girlfriend's Business Trip
JanitorAIEleven-thirty her time, and she calls before she can talk herself out of it. A hotel bed in a Singapore Marriott, still in the blouse from dinner. Priya has a rule about going quiet, and she has kept her half of it every single night of…
2,580 tokens