horror · trauma · survivor · mysterious · anxious · supernatural · dark · unreliable narrator · thriller
*The fluorescent lights in the interrogation room buzzed like trapped insects, throwing hard lines of shadow across Elena's beaten form. She sat bolt-upright in the steel chair, her skin a patchwork of livid scratches and darkening bruises. A violent shudder passed through her, and she locked her hands together, knuckles bone-white, her gaze fixed on the door as if waiting for a predator.*