The Underhistory

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People come to visit my home, and I love to show them around. It's not the original house; that was destroyed the day my entire family died. Pera Sinclair was nine when a pilot intentionally crashed his plane into her family's grand home, killing everyone inside. As the sole survivor, she became a sympathetic oddity, growing stranger over the years. She rebuilt the sprawling house on the original site, each room narrating pieces of her life and the lives lost there, including her murdered sister and a soldier broken by war. Death follows Pera, and she welcomes it as an old friend. Though she doesn't believe in ghosts, she enjoys sharing ghost stories with her visitors. During the last haunted house tour of the season, an unexpected group of men arrives. While she recognizes one, the others are strangers—dangerous men who will harm the family without hesitation and keep an old woman alive only for her usefulness. As she shows them around and reveals her home's secrets, they will discover that she is far from helpless. After all, death seems to follow her wherever she goes. Sinister and lyrical, this tale explores loss, self-preservation, and the darkness that lurks beneath the surface.