Whydunnit Stories

When I noticed the man in cubicle 7C, no one else saw him. Not Derek from Accounting. Not Priya from HR. Not the dozens of people who walked past that dead-end corner every single day. But he was there. Navy tie. Gray eyes. Waiting. His name is Luke Grady. He's been invisible for three years. Everything about him erases when no one looks-photographs, documents, handwritten words. The world forgets him in increments. But I remember. And the more I learn about him, the more I realize: I'm not just finding him. I'm finding what I buried. 𝐀 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲, 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐰𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠.

When the secret sharing ANIMA makes a sudden appearance at Wellington Academy it takes everyone by surprise. Some students are excited about the promise of secrets being exposed while others dread it. With the threat of their deepest and darkest secrets being exposed, the question is; How far will these students go to keep their secrets hidden? After all some secrets should never see the light of day. Completed 24/08/2023

Don't get me wrong. I didn't mean to make what happened happen, it just sort of...happened. Everybody claims that they'd feel sorry for you, that they'd help you if you were in a position like mine. Piece of advice: they're probably lying to you. I did something terrible. Something horrible. I WILL get caught. What happens when I do, I don't know. They're going to question me, they're going to ask why I did the things that I did. That's why I'm writing these letters to you, because I need you to believe me. I don't care if The People put me on death row, as long as you guys know the truth. Because if the truth doesn't kill you, Then I will.

"A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards" - Victor Hugo, Notre Dame de Paris. Sara is a good person. But the world is filled with evil, such as the evil inside her brother-in-law when he pulled the trigger on her sister. He claims it was voluntary manslaughter. She knows that's not true. Sara wants to be a good person. But justice fails in the courts and the only way to get him behind bars forever is to seek answers in the grimy shadows of his covert life. That means stepping into the criminal world to discover the true reason her brother-in-law killed her sister. Sara was a good person. But to get justice for her sister, she's going to have to get her hands dirty. Winner of Winterfest 2020