I Took a Night-Shift Job at an Automated Toll Booth on Route 9 — Then the Driverless Cars Started Arriving

Five stories tonight, but the one that lingers longest is a night-shift job at an automated toll booth on Route 9, where a list of rules is all that stands between the attendant and the cars that arrive with no drivers at all. From there, the episode turns inward: a house on Briar Hollow Road that feels paused rather than empty, a buried orchard pit that should never have been opened, a sister who comes home almost perfect, a dawn-facing door that refuses to open, and a knock from the dead that arrives after the grave has already been filled in.