Extra Hands

Help has arrived. Nobody called for it.At a former emergency shelter scheduled for permanent closure, Vernon Wrobel and the county crew have a manageable job: clear the equipment, account for the people, and go home. The replacement shelter is already open. There is no reason for anyone to become a hero.Then three unfamiliar workers begin lending a hand.They know where to stand. They repeat the right instructions. Yet the more help they give, the harder the work becomes. Familiar movements turn unsettling, and an ordinary staffing discrepancy becomes a question the crew can no longer put aside: who, exactly, is working beside them?Vernon has learned to live within the limits of an injured hand. His colleagues are making room for lives beyond the next unfinished task. Now those hard-won boundaries matter inside a building where useful assistance has become something terrifying. Getting everyone out will require careful observation, reliable people, and decisions no one can make for someone else.Extra Hands brings adult supernatural workplace horror to the small habits that make a crew trust one another—and the moment those habits stop being enough.