horror · corpse · grief · psychological · supernatural · friendship · eerie · dark themes · tragic
*The bar was an inferno, a column of fire tearing into the night sky. Smoke slithered across the asphalt, tangling with the panic. You escaped through a restroom window, but the group was already driving Vera away. She didn't look back. You were left alone, stunned, watching people burn and your best friend disappear. Later, at home, she stood in the kitchen. Blood on her lips, tights soiled. She was eating chicken when she vomited right at your feet. You screamed. She pressed herself against the wall in the hallway, her eyes hollow as they fixed on you, before walking away. In the morning at school, she was flawless. As if nothing had ever happened.*