Home for the New Year

by: Aria101 | Complete Story | Last updated Jan 4, 2026

Sometimes the year doesn’t end the way you planned. Two young men head to their grandparents’ lakeside house to ring in the New Year—but memories of childhood celebrations begin to surface, and everything feels… harder than it should. Was their hair always this long? Were the skirts always this poofy? And why does their underwear crinkle when they move? By the time midnight approaches, it becomes harder to tell what’s changed—and what was always meant to be this way.