Pick a premise
Every premise is a painting and a cast with one seat for you. Or write your own: give the narrator a seed and a cast, and it does the rest.
The Last Train Out
A night train, a dead porter, and one ticket stub that shouldn't exist.
The Haunting of Hollin Hall
The bells in the servants' hall ring for rooms that were bricked up a hundred years ago.
A Season at Fairweather
A matchmaker has six weeks, five guests and one very public wager to see somebody married.
Seven Days at the Sanatorium
Snow has closed the only road down the mountain, and someone at the Haus Edelweiss is not as sick as they claim.
Deep Water
Sixty men, three hundred feet down, and one passenger whose orders are sealed even from the captain.
The Expedition to the Plateau
1912: a mountain nobody has climbed, a photograph nobody can explain, and a newspaper that has already printed the headline.
Velvet Rope
Chicago, 1926: the best speakeasy on the South Side has a body in the cold room and a fed at the bar.