Dime Store

Tucked between forgotten shops on a street that never stays the same, the Dime Store sells small, ordinary objects for prices anyone can afford, and costs no one ever understands until it’s too late. Each chapter follows a different customer drawn inside by grief, need, or curiosity, leaving with something that promises comfort, answers, or relief, and delivers something far worse. Watches tick without time, mirrors watch back, music remembers, and nothing ever truly leaves the shelves. Presided over by the silent Keeper and bound together by jars of stolen remnants, Dime Store is a dark, unsettling collection of interconnected horror stories about desire, consequence, and the terrible things we’re willing to trade just to feel whole again