Abandoned Town

The quiet here is perhaps the most unsettling, because it doesn’t make sense. Towns are supposed to be vibrant with life. Firelight is supposed to pour from the windows, smoke rising from the chimneys. Children are supposed to be heard laughing and animals are supposed to be calling. But there is nothing. Just a bunch of seemingly empty old houses covered in a thin layer of snow, and an unnerving presence that somewhere, in one of these windows, someone or something is watching you. At the very least, some of these houses still look good enough to take shelter for the night.