Psychological
The Day the Colors Fled
The Day the Colors Fled It started quietly, as if the city had taken a deep breath and let all color escape. I woke to gray skies and streets stripped of vibrancy. My walls, my clothes, the garden outside—everything was a shade of ash, steel, and stone. Even the sunlight seemed pallid, like paper left too long in the sun. I rubbed my eyes, convinced it was a trick of sleep. But the world outside my window confirmed my fear.
By waseem khan7 months ago in Fiction
The Café That Served Emotions
The Café That Served Emotions The café wasn’t on any map. Not in guidebooks, not on GPS, not even on the neon-lit streets of downtown. You stumbled upon it when you weren’t looking, through a narrow alley framed by ivy and flickering lanterns. The sign read simply: “Café Émotion”, its letters curling like smoke.
By waseem khan7 months ago in Fiction
Letters to the Future Me
Letters to the Future Me It started on a Tuesday. I was pouring cereal at my tiny kitchen table when I noticed the envelope lying beside my bowl. Brown paper, neatly folded, with my name written in cursive I didn’t recognize. I opened it with cautious curiosity.
By waseem khan7 months ago in Fiction
The Visitor. Top Story - August 2025. Content Warning.
The first flash came at 7:17 p.m. Eliza sat up in her cot, eyes wide in the dark room. The sterile white walls of Ward B had blinked with blue light—like a camera flash—illuminating the hallway just outside her door. She scooted back against the cold wall, shoving the pillow into her lap. She studied the crack under the door—waiting, listening.
By Tennessee Garbage7 months ago in Fiction
After. Content Warning.
Content advisory, adult themes. Reader discretion is advised. -0- Stars danced before my eyes. I couldn’t breathe. Blissful sensation flooded through me, pleasure like a tidal wave crashing into my awareness. I pressed closer, body trembling as the breath I didn’t know I was holding escaped in a long, shuddering gasp.
By Alexander McEvoy7 months ago in Fiction
The Astronaut Who Broke Down on Mars
No one ever talks about the silence. Not the kind you find in a library, or a late-night street, or a quiet bedroom. This was heavier—like the air itself was gone, and all that was left was the sound of my own blood moving in my ears.
By Emad Iqbal7 months ago in Fiction
The Final Obsession: Joe Goldberg's Last Stand in *You* Season 5
You* Season 5, the final chapter of Netflix’s psychological thriller, brings Penn Badgley’s Joe Goldberg full circle to New York City—the origin of his bloody saga. Married to billionaire CEO Kate (Charlotte Ritchie) and reunited with his son Henry, Joe appears reformed. But beneath his curated "happily ever after," his compulsions simmer, igniting a chain of events that culminate in his poetic downfall .
By Danyal Hashmi7 months ago in Fiction
The backyard
Matcha Lattes on Sundays, that was the current ritual. And, as we got older and the opportunities for late nights at the club turned into evenings with face masks, giggling about past nights at the club, which then became, “we need another face mask night,” we clung to the matcha dates.
By Athena Pajer7 months ago in Fiction
