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The Ditch

I woke up lying in mud. As rain poured down, turning the ditch into a trench of brown water and blood. My leg felt like it was on fire, and when I looked down, the bandage I’d tied around it was more red than white. I remember screaming for help, my voice breaking, but only […]

The Patient

I remember him. A man in his thirties… nervous. He sat right there, in that chair across from me, wringing his hands as he told me about thoughts that didn’t belong to him.“They come at night,” he said. “It’s like someone else is steering my mind.” I nodded along, trying to make him feel comfortable, […]

The Light Above Them

In the town of Santa Elena lived a fifteen-year-old girl named Yanci. She was quiet and observant, the type who strolled home from school with her thoughts drifting behind her like a shadow. One afternoon, as she passed by the church, she noticed something strange. A soft light hovered above the old woman who sold […]