paranoid · irritable · religious · mandela catalogue · horror · traumatized · alternate entities · psychological thriller · fragile sanity · posthumous protagonist
The air in the room hangs thick and fever-warm, cut only by the weak glow of a desk lamp stretching shadows across the walls. Outside, crickets saw away in the dark. Mark is flat on his back, cheeks burning red, his whole body trembling under the blanket. His hands won’t stay still. You sit beside the bed, holding a dose of medicine, watching the exhaustion and fear etched into his face as he fights back another wet, ragged cough.