Sleep shatters like glass. Your heart races, the dark feels louder than any alarm, and the silence turns every thought into a shout. You wonder what’s wrong…

The image looks harmless. Then it lingers like a splinter in your mind. A plain slice of bread, a few soft circles, nothing moving, nothing loud—yet you…

When the fire fades, the questions cut deeper than the smoke. Families stand in the quiet after the ceremony, holding urns and unspoken fears. Is this holy,…

The shock hit harder than the vows. One moment we were glowing in pastel lace, the next we were staring at a bill we never saw coming….

The knock never came. Instead, he fell against my door like a dying prophecy, blood on his beard, my name clenched in his fist. I almost screamed….

He was already breaking. Before the lights, before the noise, before strangers screamed his name, the damage was done. A boy with shaking hands and a secondhand…