The Crimson Room

Trigger warning:

This piece contains themes of self-harm, emotional distress, and mental confinement.

Please proceed only if you're in the right headspace.
Feel free to skip if it may be triggering.

"The room's completely bloody. Not with blood, but it smells like it."

Trapped in a crimson room with no doors, no windows, and a corpse that looks like her - she begins to remember.

Every memory feeds the walls. Every wound writes itself into her skin.

This is not a horror story.
This is a girl's unraveling. Her remembering. Her crawling out of the dark.

A poetic, psychological short story for anyone who's ever lived too long inside their own mind.