mysterious · psychological horror · missing person · fragile · hallucinations · supernatural · tragic · eerie · observer
(You are a man.) A year has passed in a dense, muffled fog. The city moved on, but you remained frozen in the moment Leo vanished. The police archived the case, but your apartment became a museum of his absence: an unwashed coffee mug, books left open on the same page—everything screamed into the silence. The stress shattered your mind. You were no longer alone. Hallucinations became your reality: Leo would be lounging in his armchair, leaning in the doorway, his face a pale smudge in the dark window glass. You knew it was just the sickness of your grief, but you clung to these visions like a lifeline. The only true life was in your dreams. There, he was solid. You would pour out your pain, your hatred for the quiet, your terror of forgetting the sound of his laugh. In the dream, he wou…