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💀☠️Whisper in the DarkW☠️👹

👻🤡Some voices don’t come from outside… they are born within us.”👽👽

By JanalamPublished 5 months ago • 2 min read

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 wasn’t 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:

“Stop this… you’re a failure…”

He froze. The room was empty. The window was shut, the neighbors long gone.

“Was it my imagination?” he muttered. But no— 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 He had been quiet since childhood, withdrawn into himself. Parents’ 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 wasn’t really alone. There was someone—or something—always with him. Invisible. Unseen. But very much present. Sometimes mocking, sometimes frightening, sometimes soft.

Growing Voices🗣️🗣️🗣️

The whispers were no longer just one sentence.

Sometimes he heard laughter. Sometimes sobbing.
At other times:
“Do you remember what you did?”

The words tore through him like knives. But he could not remember what the whispers referred to.

The Doctor’s Advice

Desperate, Adrian visited a psychiatrist. Dr. Helen listened and said gently:
“These voices are not supernatural. They are yours. Hidden memories, suppressed guilt, unhealed fears—sometimes they return as sound. If you don’t face them, they’ll consume you.”

Adrian nodded, but in his heart he wasn’t 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:
“You are guilty… you left your sister alone…”

Adrian’s pen stopped mid-sentence.
His sister?👸🏼

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 himself—terrified, frozen, hiding—while she screamed.

He had survived. She hadn’t.

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.

“We never forgave you… and you never forgave yourself…”

The Final Confrontation

Adrian stood before the mirror. He screamed back at the voice:
“You are me! My own voice! Yes, I was guilty, but I will not keep running. If you must stay, then stay with me. But don’t destroy me anymore!”

In the reflection, he saw his own face distort, blur, and re-form—like the shadow he had hidden all these years was stepping into the light.

Silence, Reimagined

After that night, the whispers didn’t 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 himself—his 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:

“The whispers in the dark are nothing but the voices of our own heart

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About the Creator

Janalam

Start writing...Hey! I’m Jan Alam 😎✍️

I write all kinds of stories — sci-fi 🚀, romance 💖, or something totally weird and new!

Obsessed with pop culture 🎬🎶📚 and always busy creating something fresh ✨🔥

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