Aiysha Hussain

Woman in White. Content Warning. AI-Generated.

Chapter One - The Asphalt Vein The highway at night was a vein of dull silver, stretching endlessly into the black belly of the Carolina countryside. Miles of asphalt shimmered under the moon, broken by the rhythmic thump of expansion joints, like a heartbeat too slow for the living. Fog had rolled in thick from the marshlands, curling over the guardrails and swallowing the treeline.