Widdershins

In a cramped, forgotten corner of a weather‑worn town, a crumbling house looms over a narrow alley, its boarded windows and sagging “To Let” signs hinting at long‑abandoned lives. Oleron, a solitary tenant juggling two cramped residences, discovers a cryptic notice promising a key to the derelict building and feels an inexplicable pull toward its dark interior. The narrative drifts through the gritty streets, painting vivid scenes of rain‑slicked bricks, stray cats, and the lingering presence of vanished insurance emblems, setting a tone that is both eerie and oddly intimate.

As Oleron ventures inside, the house reveals a labyrinth of dust‑laden stairways, hidden cellars, and boarded doors that seem to guard forgotten secrets. The story balances the mundane—rent worries, misplaced letters—with an undercurrent of something uncanny waiting just beyond the next threshold. Listeners are drawn into a world where the ordinary and the supernatural blur, inviting curiosity about what lies hidden in the shadows of the old square.