Don't Blink

Nate hasn’t blinked in over a minute. Nate hasn’t slept in three nights. Not since the night

he woke up… …to see himself still sleeping. “That wasn’t a dream…” But every reflection…

showed the other version smiling. In a mirror: Nate stares, exhausted.

He doesn’t. NARRATOR: It told him, in a voice that sounded too much

like his own: “One of us has to go. And you’re the one who blinked.”

But reflections… don’t need mirrors anymore. “You’re not fooling anyone.

She knows.” She’s standing in the kitchen. Pale. Bloody.

WIFE (shaking): “You came home… last night. Said you were… ‘done hiding.’