LINE ZERO

Alan calculates every minute of his trip home as if it were a precise equation: the transfer, dinner getting cold if the train is delayed. Tonight, the train doesn't stop at his station. What begins as a routine glitch plunges him into a subway with no schedule and no exit: trains that grow darker with every line, officers who age between one encounter and the next, windows that no longer show tunnels, but something breathing in the dark.
On a nameless platform he finds others like him, long since resigned. He isn't. Not yet. But there's one last line no one dares to ride. Line Zero: a claustrophobic descent meant to be read in a single sitting. You won't look at a subway the same way again.