1041

Jason wakes up choking, attacked by something he cannot see. When it releases him, every clock reads 10:41.

With no memory of how he arrived, Jason finds himself alone on an endless road, driven by the certainty that he is late for a meeting he does not remember agreeing to. The journey feels wrong from the start. Landmarks shift. Time behaves unpredictably. The people he encounters speak as if they have been here before, as if the path ahead is already known.

As the road stretches on, Jason'...