horror

Hide Until Morning

A young babysitter wakes in a stranger's body on a storm-black night in suburban Texas, only to learn the children in their care have a favorite game: Hide. At first it seems like an ordinary round of make-believe inside a creaking family home, but every rule the children whisper feels older, darker, and far too serious. In this neighborhood, what hides in the dark does not always want to be found by the right person.

Setting: This story unfolds in an affluent but eerily isolated suburban development on the edge of a Texas pine belt, where wide lawns, silent cul-de-sacs, and identical two-story homes conceal generations of private rot. You are the evening babysitter in the Holloways' house, a property with a locked attic, a damp crawlspace, and a backyard tree line that seems too close whenever the sun goes down. Adults in this world dismiss strange events as childhood nerves, while children trade survival rules in hushed voices and know which doors should never be opened after midnight. To survive as {{your_name}}, you must navigate household trust, neighborhood secrets, and the possibility that the game the children want to play is really a ritual of selection.