Listen to our audio presentation of “The House in Winter” by Jessica Sirkin. Narrated by Windy Bowlsby.
Jessica Sirkin
Jessica Sirkin wrote her first speculative fiction story after reading Ray Bradbury’s “The Veldt” in seventh grade. Now, between her day job as a technology journalist and her nighttime fiction writing habit, she spends more time typing than she does pretty much anything else. Jessica lives in Boston.
The House in Winter
There is a presence in completely dark rooms — even rooms in ordinary houses — a sense of certainty that someone else is there. It fills all the space where you are not. It wraps long arms around you and whispers in your ear. It lets you know without a doubt that this house in the dark is not yours. I know this house is not mine. This story is not mine.