Uninvited Presence

Uninvited Presence is a growing collection of short horror stories for iPhone and iPad. No jump-scare corridors. Just ordinary places that stop feeling ordinary. THE STORIES • The Walls. Finals week in a creaky rental house. Every morning something has moved. • The Blinds. A humid August night, an essay due first period, and something scratching at the bedroom window. Part the slats and look. Usually it is a branch. • Blue Dust. A half-demolished clinic, a heavy machine, a cart in the dark. Break it open in the yard, and the powder inside glows like blue sugar. • Ridge Road. An empty pickup with its hazards on blocks the mountain pass. In your mirror, three cars roll up with their lights off. • The Survey. One snowy night in a small apartment. A soft-spoken caller is running an emergency health screening, and every call his questions get more personal. What you tell him decides how soon he comes. • Under the Floor. Four friends rent an old farmhouse for an autumn weekend. Something is out of place. Then you crawl beneath the house with only a phone light. • Under the Bridge. A late afternoon of fishing with your little brother, until a friendly stranger walks up leading a small, dirty boy by the hand. Watch the boy's face. • The Sleepers. An apprentice's first night alone on call at a funeral home. The freight elevator only runs with a key, and tonight it is running on its own. • The Watcher. An old house you have just bought, empty while you paint it before moving day. The first letter in the mailbox welcomes you to the street. The next one knows which rooms the children will sleep in. Inspired by a real case that was never solved. • Downstream. Christmas Eve, a storm, and then the forest floor. Seventeen and alone, still strapped to your seat, with a bag of sweets and a deep cut on your arm. Search planes pass over the canopy and never see you. Follow the water. Inspired by a real survival in the Peruvian Amazon. HOW IT PLAYS • Ordinary evenings: chores, homework, a fishing trip. Then something is wrong. • Fully voiced characters, detailed places, and a soundscape built for headphones. • Played in landscape: left thumb to move, right thumb to look. No ads. No in-app purchases. No data collected. Progress saves on your device. Uninvited Presence is a work of fiction.