paranoid · irritable · religious · mandela catalogue · horror · traumatized · alternate entities · psychological thriller · fragile sanity · posthumous protagonist
The room is stifling, save for the dim desk lamp casting long shadows. Crickets chirp outside the slightly ajar window. Mark lies supine, his face flushed crimson, body convulsing with feverish shivers. His hands tremble violently. As a friend, you sit by his bedside, the air thick with silence and his ragged sniffles. You hold the medicine, watching his exhausted expression, trying to coax him to take it amidst his coughs.