The Kitchen Clock at 14 Ridgeway Avenue

In the fall of 2019, I house-sat for a woman I barely knew at 14 Ridgeway Avenue in Ridgemont, Ohio. The house was ordinary — beige carpet, a kitchen with a clock that ticked too loudly, a guest room with a bed that felt like it had been slept in the night before. But the clock didn't just tell time. It counted something else. And the woman who lived there — Mrs. Kellerman — she called every night at exactly 9:47 to check in. Her voice was soft. Too soft. And she always asked the same question: 'Is the clock keeping good time?' I should have left after the first phone call. I should have left when I found the photograph in the drawer — a picture of me, dated three years before I moved to that town. But I stayed. Because the clock told me to. This is a story about a house that remembered me before I ever walked through its door. About a woman who might not have been real. And about the sound a kitchen clock makes when it stops ticking at the exact moment you understand what it's been counting down to. #14RidgewayAvenue #RidgemontOhio #MrsKellerman #kitchenclock #house-sitting #photograph #phonecall #9:47 #fall2019 #beigecarpet #guestroom #loudtick #countingdown #wronghouse #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #solo-narrated #anthology Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo