Tag: psychological fiction

A Room Outside Time

Post author By cleanshave
Post date July 31, 2025
Categories In Fiction, Short Story, Writing

The fluorescent lights hum their familiar tune above me, a soft electrical lullaby that never changes pitch or rhythm. I’ve heard this sound for so long now that silence would feel like deafness. The examination paper crackles as I smooth it across the table, each wrinkle a small protest against order. Then I hear them, […]

Encoded Legacy

Post author By cleanshave
Post date May 19, 2025
Categories In Cozy Dystopian Noir, Fiction

I found my reflection fragmented across the lobby’s sleek surfaces at 2:17 AM, a woman with three-day shadows beneath her eyes, hair uncombed, betraying the seventy-two hours I’d spent analyzing anomalous patterns instead of sleeping. The security guard barely glanced at my badge. After eight weeks at DataGenome, I’d become another scientist haunting these halls […]