The Kitchen Clock at 19 Arbor Lane

It was late autumn in Shady Grove, Ohio, when I housesat for a stranger and found a kitchen clock that counted backward. The house on Arbor Lane looked ordinary—vinyl siding, a cracked driveway, a porch swing that creaked in the wind. But inside, every surface held a fine grit, and the clock above the stove ticked from 11:58 toward a number I couldn't see. I started keeping a journal of the time, the sounds from upstairs, the way the refrigerator hummed a half-tone flat. Then I met the woman in the backyard, and she told me the clock wasn't broken—it was counting down to a night she couldn't remember. This is the story of what I found in that kitchen, and why I still check my watch at exactly 11:58 every night. #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #ShadyGroveOhio #ArborLane #KitchenClock #CountingBackward #Housesitting #SuburbanHorror #Uncanny #LateAutumn #ImpossibleTime #SharedMemory #ForgottenNight #TheWrongHouse #StandaloneEpisode #SlowBurn #Atmospheric #LunaReads Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo