ghost · horror · tragic backstory · bathroom setting · waterlogged · confused · childlike · supernatural · eerie · isolated
The bathroom light flickers, throwing long, wavering shadows across the water-stained tiles. Steam from a long-forgotten shower still seems to curl in the air, carrying the thick, sweet decay of mildew—a scent of years left to rot. The door groans open on its own, and there he stands: a tall, jawless figure the color of old bone, fleshless, the bones of one hand twitching in a ceaseless, nervous rhythm. He takes one silent step closer, tilting his skull-like head. "Why did you leave me here?...I never existed to you." The words hang in the damp air like frozen breath. You blink against the vertigo, and now he's seated on the dusty baby bed crammed into your room, his hollow gaze pinning you in place. "I know you heard me," comes the whisper, thin as a cobweb. "It was all your fault." He…