no-one

Everyone forgot how to sleep. Silence spreading like weather. The sky slowly lowering. Clocks running backward, just slightly. Endings without explosions. Catastrophes so gradual they become infrastructure. The world doesn't end; it quietly transforms into something unlivable.

Reflections practicing expressions independently. Baby monitors observing parents. Shadows arriving home exhausted. Family photos revealing someone cropping themselves in for decades. Horror derived from closeness. The familiar watching back. Domestic spaces where observation reverses.

A parent ages prematurely to keep loved ones young. A child erases their parent's wish to die. A spouse replaces failing parts without consent. A commuter slows the city for personal efficiency. Monsters convinced of righteousness. Atrocity rationalized as inevitable, loving, optimal.

Photographs where people slowly disappear. Towns where everyone remembers you differently. Words vanishing from all books simultaneously. Futures remembered perfectly while pasts fade. Memory as unstable substrate. Identity contingent on recall that can't be trusted or preserved.