đâ ď¸Whisper in the DarkWâ ď¸đš
đťđ¤ĄSome voices donât come from outside⌠they are born within us.âđ˝đ˝

When silence runs too deep in the middle of the night, it sometimes feels as if the silence itself is speaking.
That was exactly what Adrian often felt.
He was a 28-year-old painter who lived in isolation, trying to connect to the world only through his art. His flat was in the older part of the city, where the streets were narrow and the buildings wore the decay of time. Yet the strangest thing wasnât the crumbling walls or the rusted windows, but the whispers he heard when night fell.
The First Whisper
One night, as the clock struck twelve, Adrian was brushing strokes across a blank canvas. Suddenly, a voice came, clear and near:
âStop this⌠youâre a failureâŚâ
He froze. The room was empty. The window was shut, the neighbors long gone.
âWas it my imagination?â he muttered. But noâ the voice had been close, as if someone had leaned against his ear.
The Weight of Solitude
Adrian had no real friends. He had been quiet since childhood, withdrawn into himself. Parentsâ endless arguments, early traumas, and the loneliness of growing up had carved deep scars into him.
Now, art was his only refuge. Yet over the past few months, he began to feel that he wasnât really alone. There was someoneâor somethingâalways with him. Invisible. Unseen. But very much present. Sometimes mocking, sometimes frightening, sometimes soft.
Growing VoicesđŁď¸đŁď¸đŁď¸
The whispers were no longer just one sentence.
Sometimes he heard laughter. Sometimes sobbing.
At other times:
âDo you remember what you did?â
The words tore through him like knives. But he could not remember what the whispers referred to.
The Doctorâs Advice
Desperate, Adrian visited a psychiatrist. Dr. Helen listened and said gently:
âThese voices are not supernatural. They are yours. Hidden memories, suppressed guilt, unhealed fearsâsometimes they return as sound. If you donât face them, theyâll consume you.â
Adrian nodded, but in his heart he wasnât sure. These whispers felt too sharp, too alive, to be just imagination.
The Door to Memory
One night, while journaling, a whisper came again, this time sharper than ever:
âYou are guilty⌠you left your sister aloneâŚâ
Adrianâs pen stopped mid-sentence.
His sister?đ¸đź
Memories, long buried, began clawing their way back. Rain. A stormy night. A live electric wire crackling in the yard. His little sister crying for help.
And himselfâterrified, frozen, hidingâwhile she screamed.
He had survived. She hadnât.
The True Face of the Whispers
Now it was clear. The whispers were not ghosts, not strangers.
They were his own conscience. His guilt, locked away since childhood, now echoing in the silence of night.
âWe never forgave you⌠and you never forgave yourselfâŚâ
The Final Confrontation
Adrian stood before the mirror. He screamed back at the voice:
âYou are me! My own voice! Yes, I was guilty, but I will not keep running. If you must stay, then stay with me. But donât destroy me anymore!â
In the reflection, he saw his own face distort, blur, and re-formâlike the shadow he had hidden all these years was stepping into the light.
Silence, Reimagined
After that night, the whispers didnât vanish. But they changed.
Sometimes they reminded him of his flaws. Sometimes they warned him of his weaknesses. But they were no longer his enemies.
He had accepted them as part of himselfâhis own inner voice, demanding honesty.
The Ending
Weeks later, Adrian completed a new painting.
On the canvas, a lone figure emerged from darkness, walking toward a faint glow. Behind him, faint, shadowy whispers curled like smoke, not menacing, but ever-present.
At the bottom, he wrote a single line:
âThe whispers in the dark are nothing but the voices of our own heart
About the Creator
Janalam
Start writing...ďťżHey! Iâm Jan Alam đâď¸
I write all kinds of stories â sci-fi đ, romance đ, or something totally weird and new!
Obsessed with pop culture đŹđśđ and always busy creating something fresh â¨đĽ



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